Modern labor-saving devices eliminated drudgery, not labor. Before industrialization, women fed, clothed, and nursed their familie...s by preparing (with the help of their husbands and children) food, clothing, and medication. In the post-industrial age, women feed, clothe, and nurse their families (without much direct assistance from anyone else) by cooking, cleaning, driving, shopping, and waiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I frankly admit that to be a "mistress" is less dishonorable than to be a "wife"; for while the mistress may leave her degradation... if she will, public sentiment and the law hold the "wife" in hers; and while the man is obliged to render compensation (poor I admit for the sacrifice) to his "mistress," he may demand of his "wife" that she perform his drudgery, submit to his blows, and (worse) live the uncomplaining victim of his rapacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man, cautious, hides his limp,... Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She has been man's slave. He has been educated at her expense. If he bought the ice cream, she was expected to pay for all his lux...uries in reduced wages. She has done the drudgery and borne the insults of those who wronged her, assuming to be her protector.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don't do housework any more--that is, beyond the minimum that is requ...ired in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was dru...dgery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. ...This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The suburban housewife--she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world.... The American housewife--freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human empl...oyment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »