Able Quote by May Sarton

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days.…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“It was women’s work, and therefore monotonous, backbreaking, and social.”

— Terry Pratchett

The definition of woman's work is shitwork

— Gloria Steinem

[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others,…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women…

— Julie Zeilinger

“In just about every industry, “office work” for women meant secretarial jobs and typing pools. Even in creative fields, such as book publishing, advertising,…

— Lynn Povich

“She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it doesn't work…

— Patricia Lockwood

“The culture at large had exerted the same pressure on her that it exerts on all women, namely to feel insecure about herself regardless…

— Tom McAllister

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

— John Dos Passos

“she quickly hired a housekeeper and a kitchen staff for the White House and then threw herself into what mattered far more to her—civil…

— Laura Shapiro

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They…

— Mary Daly