quotes by Thorstein Veblen

"Invention is the mother of necessity."
— Thorstein Veblen

"There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the disparity between man's and woman's work. His work may conduce to the maintenance of the group, but it is felt that it does so through an excellence and an efficacy of a kind that cannot without derogation be compared with the uneventful diligence of the women."
— Thorstein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class)