Drudgery quotes

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Modern labor-saving devices eliminated drudgery, not labor. Before industrialization, women fed, clothed, and nursed their familie ...
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 a man, cautious,
hides his limp,
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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 ...
After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don't do housework any more--that is, beyond the minimum that is requ ...
It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was dru ...
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. ...
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 ...
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human empl ...
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