Smoke and Mirrors Quotes

“We’re not a special-interest group! What’s so special about our interest? We’re your mothers, your sisters, your daughters, your wives. We care for your children and ours; we tend your aging parents and our own. We work in the factories and the hospitals, in the farmyards and in the shops and in the schools. We pay taxes. We don’t pay as much as you do because we don’t earn as much, even at the same job; but in what ways do our interests differ from yours? Don’t all human beings want the same things? Don’t you want peace and freedom—clean air to breathe and unpolluted water to drink? Do you care less about your children’s safety and happiness than we do? Don’t call us a special-interest group; and don’t tell us that if it weren’t for us you’d still be wearing skins and wielding clubs.”
― Elizabeth Peters, Smoke and Mirrors