Famous quotes containing the words support and/or women:
“If only I had a wife! I used to think, who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“Tailors workthe finishing of mens outside garmentswas the trade learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s], and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)