Breadwinning Quotes

#1. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

Mariella Frostrup

#4. Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

Liza Mundy

#5. For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Martin Freeman

#8. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#9. What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

#10. The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Julien Benda

#11. To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.

Joseph Campbell

#12. Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

Franklin Graham

#13. Excision of my genitals didn't eliminate the human sex drive, and neither did the fear of hellfire. Repression only led to hypocrisy and lying, strategies that corrupt the human individual, and it failed to protect people from unwanted pregnancy and disease. The

Ayaan Hirsi Ali