Daytime Soap Operas

Famous quotes containing the words soap operas, daytime and/or soap:

“I’ve finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

“This was your place of birth, this daytime palace,
This miracle of glass....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“To know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisements of Pears’ soap at the end of the libretto.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)