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
Radio invented a new kind of drama called soap opera, a form of serial in which the main rule was, ‘Dont let anything happen!’ – because if something happened on a Wednesday and you were at the dentist, on Thursday you wouldn’t know what the hell was going on and you’d get mad and switch soap operas, and soap, too. Sam Moore