Family Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they’d saved…

— Liane Moriarty

“Although per capita income doubled during the half-century, not all sectors of society shared equally in this abundance. While both rich and poor enjoyed…

— James M. McPherson

“Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And having a servant was not a sign of wealth or privilege—even a modest establishment would have a maid, as this was an important…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“But there was one occasion when we went down to a village to set up our feeding kitchens and I noticed there was another…

— Mark Juergensmeyer

“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at…

— Margaret Powell

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“Money is a burden, a burden most keenly felt by the poor.”

— Eleanor Catton

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said, ‘Oh, no.…

— Margaret Powell

“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser