“It is … pathetic to observe the complete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers and men and women of the upper-income levels, equally devoid of experience, equally glib with their criticism … directed against workers, labor leaders, and other villains and personal devils who are the objects of their dart-throwing. Who doesn’t know the wealthy woman who fulminates against the “idle” workers who just won’t get out and hunt jobs?”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.’s, the Putting Husband Throughs, young women who with high hopes work for years to earn money for their husbands’ doctorates. Year after year they slave on, often forced to forgo bearing children until it is too late, sacrificing pleasures and recreation for the pot of gold at the end of the gaily alluring rainbow–a doctorate pinned on a man who has renounced the amenities and comforts of life, already the victim of occupational desiccation when he gets his medal.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic “dependent,” reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadership in industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“… every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“The new supplants the old. Yet men’s minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“… the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.”
Mary Barnett Gilson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
