#he

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#call #children #clean #dedication #development

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#families #idolatry #nothing #other #than

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#evaporates #exists #gone #integrity #left

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#around #bother #change #i #like

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. ↗

— Adam Oates

#become #bit #buddies #coach #coaches

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. ↗

— Adam Oates

#ball #british #could #family #father

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. ↗

— John Oates

#because #difference #different #each #easy

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. ↗

— Adam Oates

#drafted #gas #going #had #high

Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#america #become #boxing #theater #tragic