I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary…

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

— Stephanie Coontz

There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price…

— Patricia Arquette

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works…

— Frances O'Grady

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household…

— Thomas Perez

Hillary Clinton was the first professional First Lady, the first feminist First Lady, the first First Lady from the '60s generation, the first First…

— Michael Tomasky

My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for…

— Brian Blessed

I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single parents; they're…

— Steve Harvey

There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity…

— Henry Miller

“Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must go.”

— August Strindberg

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to…

— Harry Browne

I didn't have any more children because I couldn't have continued working - and I was the main breadwinner. But although we are small…

— Vera Lynn

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered…

— Mona Eltahawy

The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and…

— Judith Stacey

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the…

— Betty Friedan