(via exsouvenir)

“My wife used to always say to me, ‘Why can’t a woman have the same ambitions as a man?’ I think you’re right. Maybe I’ve learned that much but by the same token, I’d like to know what law is it that says a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of her sex. You know I’ve had a lot of time I think about, what is it that makes somebody a good parent? You know it has to do with constancy, it has to do with patience, it has to do with listening to them, it has to do with pretending to listen to them when you can’t even listen any more. It has to do with love, like she was saying and I don’t know where it is written that says that a woman has the corner on that market, that says that a man has any less than a woman does.”

Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)