I've been my family's breadwinner since I was 11.

I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner.

— Freddie Gibbs

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

Most of the career choices I've made have been because of my family.

— Sarah Lancashire

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

— James Nesbitt

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I've had my family around me all the time, and that's been a great help.

— Jack Rodwell

When my parents separated, I became the breadwinner of the family.

— Pia Wurtzbach

“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

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

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

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

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

— Thomas Perez

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

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

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

— Stephanie Coontz