“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.” MenWantTryingKindHelpingHomeKidsHateWishEnjoyHeroHarderHeroismHate MeHouseworkStay At HomeDon't Hate Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.” ThinkingKnowsWayMadeHomeJobsParentDifficultRolesInternetHarder Author:William J. Clinton
“The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.” PeopleWantHomeDesireHard WorkModelsHarderConstantAdvertisingConceptionWork HarderDissatisfiedNew Home Author:Bruce Barton