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“I could reach these kids, and they reached back. They put a Band-Aid on some type of wound I'd never quite located.”

Hope Healing Care Work

Book:How to Say I Love You Out Loud

Source: How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“It hadn't felt necessary to learn more about my mother outside of her existence on the periphery of my life. She cleaned our clothes and bought us groceries. Made our meals, mopped and dusted, trimmed the tree. My father was the one I'd admired. He was the one I'd wanted to be like.”

Housework Division Of Labor Internalized Misogyny Care Work

Book:Mostly Dead Things

Source: Mostly Dead Things

“Todas las familias son diferentes, pero me he fijado en que, en muchas ocasiones, detrás de cada exhausta mujer madura cargada de responsabilidades que se ocupa de sus padres cuando envejecen suele haber un par de hermanos varones que no tiran del carro. Supongo que no educamos a los hombres para que acudan al rescate cuando surge una crisis familiar.”

Mujeres Caregiving Care Work Hombres Irresponsables Cuidadoras

Book:More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

Source: More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.”

Feminism Privilege Gender Roles Gender Inequality Feminist Theory Gender Oppression Care Work

Book:Privilege, Power, and Difference

Source: Privilege, Power, and Difference