For Her Own Good Quotes

“A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children’s best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father’s first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women

“I do my thing, and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations.
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful
If not, it can't be helped.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women

“It was doubtless true,” she later wrote “that I was ‘Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women