Anna Garlin Spencer:
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Woman's Share in Social Culture, 1912
Barbara Ehrenreich:
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Colleen C. Barrett:
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett:
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Danilo Dolci:
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Edward Kennedy:
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Emily Dickinson:
What is—"Paradise"—
Who live there—
Are they "Farmers"—
Do they "hoe"—
Do they know that this is "Amherst"—
And that I—am coming—too—