Quotes by Ann Oakley

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
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
– Ann Oakley
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
– Ann Oakley
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
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
– Ann Oakley
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