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Quotes by Sociologist
"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's."
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"In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level."
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"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding."
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"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
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"Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it."
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"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
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"Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance."
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"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
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"Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth."
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"Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work."
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"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
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"Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir."
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"Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done."
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"Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women."
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"America faces a new race that has awakened."
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"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects."
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"Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?"
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"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage."
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"The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships."
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"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
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"The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life."
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"It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to."
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"It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity."
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"Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made."
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"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."
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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information."
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"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh."
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"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
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"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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