“Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.”
Work (pg. 136)
The Whole Woman (1999)
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Australian feminist author 1939Related quotes

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
Source: CAT'S EYE.

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: p>Whatever prize he wanted lay ready for him — scientific social, literary, political — and he knew how to take them in turn. With ordinary luck he would die at eighty the richest and most many-sided genius of his day.So little egoistic he was that none of his friends felt envy of his extraordinary superiority, but rather grovelled before it, so that women were jealous of the power he had over men; but women were many and Kings were one. The men worshipped not so much their friend, as the ideal American they all wanted to be.</p

Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 20

Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 1.
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)