Clock Rates

Famous quotes containing the words clock and/or rates:

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)