Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Bettina Arndt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian journalist Bettina Arndt.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Bettina Arndt

Bettina Mary Arndt is an Australian writer and commentator who specialises in sex and gender issues. Starting as a sex therapist and self-proclaimed feminist, she established her career in the 1970s publishing and broadcasting as well as writing several books. In the last two decades she has abandoned feminism and attracted controversy with her social commentary and her views on sexual abuse, domestic violence and men's rights advocacy. John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, spoke out about the importance of Arndt's work saying "For me now what becomes the issue is what about that extraordinary in-depth research you do that needs to be taken seriously at a time when we are all at each other's throats, when it is all too common just to shut people down."

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do. — © Bettina Arndt
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.
Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.
The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.
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