Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in… — 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share
... 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
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
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
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
