Breadwinner Quote by Geraldine James

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

— Stephanie Coontz

The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and…

— Judith Stacey

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered…

— Mona Eltahawy

I didn't have any more children because I couldn't have continued working - and I was the main breadwinner. But although we are small…

— Vera Lynn

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to…

— Harry Browne

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

“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

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

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