Arlie Russell Hochschild I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we’ve had too little faith in government. – Arlie Russell Hochschild Base Quotes Boston Quotes Capitalism Quotes Community Quotes Culture Quotes Faith Quotes Family Quotes Fragile Quotes Government Quotes Individualistic Quotes Nations Quotes Party Quotes Rawer Quotes Tea Quotes Version Quotes The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman’s aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
Piet Mondrian I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction. – Piet Mondrian
J Smith-Cameron People think that, when you’re doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It’s quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death. – J Smith-Cameron
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