“ Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster. Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art pub… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality.… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend wit… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constan… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral la… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Memory, Evans-Pritchard reasoned, was an indirect expression of power. The Arenos faced structural amnesia about something else and linked it to a different source of power: the Louisiana Chemical Ass… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and small children...But the majority of men did not share the load at home. Some… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams. Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Harold adds an important idea to that of Evans-Pritchard. The state always seems to come down on the little guy, he notes. Take this bayou. If your motorboat leaks a little gas into the water, the war… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ The stock image of the early twentieth century, the Negro minstrel, a rural simpleton, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich notes, has now been upgraded, whitened, and continued in such television progra… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford all supported the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1960, the G… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ In the history of American fatherhood, there have been roughly three stages, each a response to economic change. In the first, agrarian stage, a father trained and disciplined his son for employment,… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it ha… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Tea Party adherents seemed to arrive at their dislike of the federal government via three routes--through their religious faith (the government curtailed the church, they felt), through hatred of taxe… Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should feel--happy for the gay newlywed, sad at the plight of the Syrian refugee, resentful to pay taxes. The left sees prejudice. Arlie Russell Hochschild
“ Instead of the country agreeing with her community on the natural rightness of heterosexual marriage as the center of family life, she was now obliged to defend herself against the idea that these vie… Arlie Russell Hochschild
