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.
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
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The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
