"Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average."

-- Rose Schneiderman

#Mean Girls Quotes #Average Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.”
“Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.”
“I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.”
“The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.”
“All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.”

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“The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.”
“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”

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