Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to go together.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“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)