Level Realities

Famous quotes containing the words level and/or realities:

    Let still the woman take
    An elder than herself. So wears she to him;
    So sways she level in her husband’s heart.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Americans have internalized the value that mothers of young children should be mothers first and foremost, and not paid workers. The result is that a substantial amount of confusion, ambivalence, guilt, and anxiety is experienced by working mothers. Our cultural expectations of mother and realities of female participation in the labor force are directly contradictory.
    Ruth E. Zambrana, U.S. researcher, M. Hurst, and R.L. Hite. “The Working Mother in Contemporary Perspectives: A Review of Literature,” Pediatrics (December 1979)