Quote by Rebecca Traister Download Open image ““But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,”” — Rebecca Traister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And to make the matter worse, rich as they were, they never were able to pay anybody anything that they owed. They continued to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. The” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.” — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.” — Ninotchka Rosca Copy Share Image
“if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.” — John Cummuta Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image