Famous quotes containing the words providing, material and/or support:
“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In lifes ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“Trying to love your children equally is a losing battle. Your childrens scorecards will never match your own. No matter how meticulously you measure and mete out your love and attention, and material gifts, it will never feel truly equal to your children. . . . Your children will need different things at different times, and true equality wont really serve their different needs very well, anyway.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so depreciated that women feel compelled to take a job in order to hold the respect of the community. It is one thing if women work, as many of them must, to help support the family. It is quite another thingit is destructive of womans freedomif society forces her out of the home and into the labor market in order that she may respect herself and gain the respect of others.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (18871970)