Elizabeth Alexander quotes:

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?