Home is where life makes up its mind – Hazen Werner

The home is the nursery of the infinite – William Channing

Your conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old – psychiatrist Dr. Brock Chisholm

The soul is healed by being with children- Fyodor Dostoevsky

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest – Spanish proverb

1853 – Sojourner Truth- We have been thrown down so low that nobody thought we’d ever get up again but we have been long enough trodden now. We will come up again

1856- Elizabeth Cady  Stanton- Women will never claim their civil rights until they know their social wrongs. What is unjust for a  man is unjust for a woman. Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions..there is not enough attention given to the preparation for this office

1869 – Virginia Penny – Wives by their labor and economy in domestic matters really earn on an average as much as their husbands

1881 -  Susan B. Anthony- Woman has been he great unpaid laborer of the world.

1898 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘ The labor of women in the home enables men to produce more wealth. Women are economic factors in society

1900ap – Franics Marion Beynon – I consider it downright impertinence for a man on a farm to talk about supporting his wife. When she cooks his meals and sews and mends for him and his children from dawn until dusk, what is she doing if not supporting herself?

1911- Olive Schreiner- It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice. It is the man or woman who first treads the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly

1914 – Emmeline Pankhurst – Women have always fought for women and for their children. Now they are ready to fight for their own  human rights.

1915 – Nellie McClung – We hear too much about the burden of motherhood and too little of its benefits. .The average child broadens our outlooks, quickens our sympathies and hands us, if we will but let him,..all truth”  Human justice does not come ready-made. We have to fight for it

1915- Theodora Youmans –The assumption that women however hard they work in the household do not support themselves but are supported by their husbands, that they earn nothing and own nothing – that assumption upon which all our property laws are based is so abominable that I cannot find words to express my opinion of it

1920- Eleanor Raylor- Most women are or will become mothers and any feminist movement which ignores their problems invites failure.  Mothers are too self-effacing and do not recognize their own worth

1945 – Gertrude Williams, economist – Rearing babies through happy healthy childhood to independent maturity is even more important than wiring airplanes and is a very much more absorbing and exacting task

1963- Betty Friedan – The omnipresent details of those mother years, which seemed so pressing then, so harassing, and sometimes so clouded with guilt and conflict and ‘problem that had no name’..I only wish now that I’d savored them all more, at the time.. In the second stage we should move for some very simple aids that make it possible for mothers or fathers who want to stay home and take care of their own children to do so with some economic compensation that might make the difference

1970- Daniel Patrick Moynihan – Money should be paid to mothers of small children not as welfare with all the stigma attached to that status but as a return to the policy of a mother’s pension – payment for the services these women perform

1972 – Johnnie Tillmon – A woman should be able to choose whether to work outside her home or in it, to choose whether she wants to care for her own children all the time or part-time

1973- Suzie Fleming – We want to keep the family allowance paid..automatically- never mind whether the men are working or not working, on strike or supplementary benefits..paid at all times through sickness, unemployment, strikes or breakdown of marriage. ..The product that our housework produces is people..We produce labor power. 

We women need money of our own.

1998 – Isabella Bakker – Canadian economist: The care sector of the economy “cannot be treated as a bottomless well from which water can always  be drawn”

1996- Marilyn Waring – When I see a woman holding her child I know that  I am watching a woman at work (New Zealand politician and feminist economist)

A right is not what someone gives you. It’s what no one can take away from you – Ramsey Clark