当我们将家庭主义换成职业时，我们被隐含地承诺具有经济独立性和世俗的影响力。但是，就日常生活而言，它是一种讨价还价的魔鬼。我们放弃了温暖的面包升起的香气，培养的习惯的测得的步伐，创造性的任务是塑造家庭的口味和一生的热情；我们收到了小型货车和午餐。
(When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.)