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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are read more
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, read more
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.
She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn read more
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind read more
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
