“Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.” PeopleIfsImportantIdeasProblemHomeYoungPoliticalValuesSocialViewsShareStudentsCollegeArgumentFunctionProportionProfessorsOddsPopularityEntitledOutrageSocial Values Author:Ellen Willis
“I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.” FeelsHomeEnvironmentFunctionStudiosDesertArtificialJungleAlaskaAntarcticaSaharaSahara Desert Author:Werner Herzog
“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.” IfsHomeCertainNextCommunityRoomsCitiesBabyShapesFunctionPatternsBreatheStreamsDistinctionHospitalsTrafficChamberGroceriesRecreationCorridorsTrolleys Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.” MenShouldMayHas BeensHomeMotherFatherWinningFunctionBreadDivisionProvidingPatriarchyMonopolyProtectiveSubmissive Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.” IfsFeelsImportantIdeasHomeCan DoToolsFunctionPhonesCellsCell PhoneProsthetics Author:Aimee Mullins