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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame read more
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the read more
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are read more
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.