Class Quote by Sandra Scarr

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her…

— David Brinkley

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

— Marthe Bibesco

“The story of women taking over the duties of their husbands in factories and homes during times of war is a familiar one. While…

— Melissa Rank

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

— Cathleen Schine

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But…

— George Bernard Shaw

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio…

— Germaine Greer

“In some instances, it may unfortunately be necessary for a Wife to seek outside employment, such as when the husband is dismembered or is…

— Margaret Dilloway

Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the…

— Jon Hamm

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the…

— Ruth Brandon

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

— Nigel Dennis