Money Quote by David Cay Johnston

“...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.”

— Sheryl WuDunn

“Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right…

— Lin Pardey

“As a result, ostensibly liberated women often found themselves struggling with three full-time jobs: working inside the home, working outside the home, and trying…

— Debora L. Spar

“month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family…

— Geraldine Brooks

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things…

— Peter Lynch

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would…

— Henry David Thoreau

“For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work--the "egg money" of the twenty-first century.”

— Emily Matchar

“Until the middle of the twentieth century, men earned most of the income for the family, while women, as “traditional housewives,” were responsible for…

— Murray Milner Jr

“Nowadays, most women wed, bear children, and then plan their children’s marriages. Some of the poor might work in the fields, and a rare…

— Sarah J. Maas

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

— Wilson Mizner