I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a ...hat and a gun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.... Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On", has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or... capacity in social life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colore...d women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, wo...man's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the mora...l duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, the... blacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. Fo...r from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »