Myra MacPherson
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“Marriage is the grave of love.”
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
“When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, “Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.”
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
“Henry Ward Beecher used the parade and the IWA’s eight-hour-day battle to hector the working poor from the pulpit. Fewer hours would tend “to make men feel that work is not a good thing… hard knocks, and a good many of them” were the only way to “carve out independent fortunes.” Beecher admitted that underpaid workers could not make enough in an eight-hour day to advance from their lowly state at their present pay, but he neglected to denounce the owners who paid them so poorly. Working longer hours was his Christian solution.”
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
― The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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