Johann Caauwe’s Reviews > Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family > Status Update

“What is called public life is not larger than private life, but smaller.”

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? … No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs.
Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

“The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world.”