Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual ...through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind u...p in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Ah, you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious--keeping sixty two men in prison c...ause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I don't know which I hate worse, you or that malignant growth that stands outside your door. How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But where'd they ever scrape you up?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride,... Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I started out as a nurse I did so with the highest ideals.... But I found that steady work in my profession--like every woman...'s work in the world--depended upon the giving of myself.... Two-thirds of the physicians I met made a nurse's virtue the price of their influence in getting her steady work. Is it any wonder that I determined to become a member of this privileged sex, if possible?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, yes, I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad... that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »