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“I get so sick of people asking me, “Do you work?” Of course I work! I’ve got five children under ten—I work twenty four hours a day! But of course they mean, “Do you work for pay, outside your home?” Sometimes I hear myself say, “No, I don’t work,” and I think, “That’s a complete lie!”
― Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It