Small Family

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or family:

“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn’t got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“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)