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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any read more
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner read more
Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of read more
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
