Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or men:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“Karen: I never knew it could be like this. Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.
Sergeant Warden: Nobody?
Karen: No, nobody.
Sergeant Warden: Not even one? Out of all the men you’ve been kissed by?
Karen: Well, that would take some figuring. How many men do you think there’ve been?
Sergeant Warden: I wouldn’t know. Can’t you give me a rough estimate?
Karen: Not without an adding machine.”
—Daniel Taradash (b. 1913)