Quotes by Mead, Margaret

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to ge >>

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of t >>

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because t >>

Quotations about Housework

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sw >>

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelin >>

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth >>

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret