"Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour."

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Source : Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

Shirley Conran

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“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288”
“Art brings out the grand lines of nature.”
“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”
“You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.”
“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
“Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?”

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