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"There are no sweet meetings at evening, after the day's toil, between husband, wife, and children. The husband knows that he will find no fire on his hearth, no warm food to cheer him, nothing but a dirty and untidy room, and a nervous and ill-tempered woman. So he will go, like his mates, to the tavern, to eat and drink with them there, and to go home at midnight, if he goes home at all" from 1877
— Jan 29, 2020 10:06AM
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Renee
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Page 421 continued.. "There are no more meals in common, at least during the day; for sha has no time to prepare them. There are no fireside joys for her: how can she tidy and brighten things in her poor little home when she comes back to it after twelve hours of hard labor, harassed, exhausted, and only yearning for rest and sleep?" ... continued...
— Jan 29, 2020 10:03AM
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"The industrial labor of women, - and this is its most serious result, - tends to the utter destruction of the working man's family, and the desertion of his home. Leaving the house before sunrise and returning after dark, and tied down to her post in the workshop during the daytime, the working-woman is only in name a wife and a mother; she is degraded down to the nature of a factory hand..." Page 422
— Jan 29, 2020 10:00AM
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"Let their rule be to read only what they know to be good, and never touch what they know to be bad, or what they suspect is so. One of the first principles of morality is, that all rational beings accountable to God for their actions should be able to assign a lawful motive for every act of theirs." From Page 251 in in this amazing book. Topic is What Girls Are Not To Read.
— Jan 12, 2020 03:54AM
