Famous quotes containing the words economic and/or depression:
“Three factorsthe belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at workhave taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said On the line! The Reconstruction said Go! I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)