Famous quotes containing the words bearing and/or number:
“I tell you there isnt a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless its bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)