Weekend readings: the emotional creature and the so-called wife

First, a quick interview in the New York Times Magazine, of Eve Ensler for her new book : I am an Emotional Creature, the secret lifes of Girls around the world.

Excerpt:

“Do you ever yearn for security now that you’re 56?
Thank you for putting my age right out there! Security isn’t what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection. I hunger for good sex.”

Then read the very funny Op-Ed contributor titled : My So-Called Wife by Sandra Tsing Loh about why the 50′s model had some interesting benefits namely a double Manhattan at the end of the day!

Excerpt:

“In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household’s natural rhythms. And in the transformation of men and women into domestic co-laborers, the Art of the Wife is fast disappearing.”