It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
