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- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
- Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
- It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), 1905
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