"The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want, which is men are doing more, but because women are doing less of it, but even then, the trend is getting towards equality."

-- Stephen Marche

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Division Quotes

“I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.”
“Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.”
“All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.”
“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau
“You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day.... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.”

Source : "Everyday Bravery". YouTube channel ysabellabravetalk (#3), www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.
“The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.”
“You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.”

Source : "Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. December 1, 2006.

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