More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not... only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it... is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives there...fore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. ...I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every man's face turned t...oward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, I'll be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of i...ndustry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the p...resident of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »