The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be suppor...ted. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from ...the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is five years that I have been maintaining myself entirely by manual labor,--not getting a cent from any other quarter or emplo...yment. Now this toil has occupied so few days,--perhaps a single month, spring and fall each,--that I must have had more leisure than any of my brethren for study and literature. I have done rude work of all kinds. From July, 1845, to September, 1847, I lived by myself in the forest, in a fairly good cabin, plastered and warmly covered, which I built myself. There I earned all I needed, and kept to my own affairs. During that time my weekly outlay was but seven and twenty cents; and I had an abundance of all sorts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking ...how to make money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have never known a "movement" in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that th...e very people associated with various "uplifting" activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored th...ough it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good ...blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel of ...activity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »