Ann Oakley Quotes

#1. Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley

#2. I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.

Dave Pelzer

#3. 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

#4. Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Ann Oakley

#5. 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

#6. It's like seeing your teacher outside school. It's them, but they're all wrong and out of context

D.C. Pierson

#7. 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

#8. When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

Dan Gilroy

#9. Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#10. 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

#11. Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living ... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Barry Eisler

#13. It is only the pathetic shortness of human life that gives each individual a sense of the permanence of his background. The land we all walk upon has been under the sea many times, and it will be submerged again.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#14. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Confucius

#15. The most honest, ballsy, don't give a shit person I've ever met, and she thought I would love her forever

Chris Hilton

#16. All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

Nicholas G. Carr

#17. People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,

Michael Mandelbaum