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Gemma Hartley

Gemma Hartley Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Gemma Hartley

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Total quotes: 3

“Even having a conversation about the imbalance of emotional labor becomes emotional labor. It gets to a point where I have to weigh the benefits of getting my husband to understand my frustration against the compounded emotional labor of doing so in a way that won’t end in us fighting.”

— Gemma Hartley, Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Tagged: Relationships, Marriage, Love

“Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.”

— Gemma Hartley, Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Tagged: Emotional Labor, Gender Wars

“When I brush my daughter’s hair and elaborately braid it round the side of her scalp, I am doing the thing that is expected of me. When my husband brushes out tangles before bedtime, he needs his efforts noticed and congratulated—saying aloud in front of both me and her that it took him a whole 15 minutes. There are many small examples of where the work I normally do must be lauded when transferred to my husband. It seems like a small annoyance, but its significance looms larger.”

— Gemma Hartley, Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Tagged: Emotional Labor, gender roles, Gender Stereotypes, Fragile masculinity

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