• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

    Crystal Eastman: The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
    Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA