Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or women:
“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)
“... there is a lightness about the feminine minda touch and gomusic, the fine arts, that kind of thingthey should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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