The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the read more
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this read more
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
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The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
