"Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?"

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Source : "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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“The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it.”
“What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.”
“For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.”
“Strummer's Law: No input, no output.”
“Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.”
“Often, in a given project team or network, one sees leadership roles shifting among various members at various times. Attempts to fit these into traditional views of "leader" and "follower" don't quite work. It's more like Twitter: the "leader" has "followers" - but the "followers" are empowered to alter the relationship unilaterally, and the "leader" must continually earn the consent of the "followers."”
“Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.”
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”

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