Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“I was always pretending that I was a poor-working-girl, always forgetting that I was really poor M also a working girl.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)