Hilda Scott famous quotes

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.
-- Hilda Scott

#Political #Economics #Economic

At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.
-- Hilda Scott

#America #Media #Shoes

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.
-- Hilda Scott

#Doe #Housewife #Term

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.
-- Hilda Scott

#Women #World #Poverty

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
-- Hilda Scott

#Hard Work #Wife #Achievement

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.
-- Hilda Scott

#Women #World #Common

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.