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279 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1990
"The supreme adventure is being born...When we step into the family we step into a fairytale."
"All the most dramatic things happen at home."
"A Trimmer...means a highly chivalrous person who always goes over to the weaker side; like one who trims a boat by sitting where there are few people seated. Woman is a Trimmer; and it is a generous, dangerous, and romantic trade."
"The man is the head of the house, while the woman is the heart of the house."
"In dealing with the one man you would really have a far huger and harder job than in dealing with your throng of thousands. And that is the job that people run away from when they wish to escape from domesticity to public work."
"The creation of a new creature...is an immeasurably more grand and godlike act even than a love affair."
"Some people...do prefer working in a factory to working in a family; for there are always some people who prefer slavery to freedom, and who especially prefer being governed to governing someone else."