“On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.” StillsLevelsAttentionImpossibleCarChangedDaughterUnhappyMy DaughterPoolMondayBeing Unhappy Author:Michael Tolkin
“If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.” IfsMenKindHomeWould BeAttentionResponsibilityGenerationsSonDaughterDetailsCriticalAriseCrushMy SonTake TimeHostilityMy GenerationHouseworkOur DaughterTriviality Author:Mary Blakely
“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.” ShouldMotherAttentionEducationChildhoodDaughterIntellectMotherhoodPrincipalMother DaughterStimulation Book:A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School Source: A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School
“I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.” KnowsWantGivingHumansHeartKindSoulHandsChristianDesirePayAttentionGraceObjectsHolyDaughterTreatsBusyAll KindsMy DaughterCommunionHuman HeartLeaving MeHuman SoulHoly Communion Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska