Alva Myrdal Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

  Alva Myrdal

  Family, Home, Simple

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (1968). “Women's two roles: home and work”, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

• the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Mother, Father, Home

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press

• marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

  Alva Myrdal

  Children, Home, Equality

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press

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