The Woman Behind the New Deal Quotes

“1917, when Frances was thirty-seven and Mitchel faced reelection, women in New York first won the right to vote in state elections. In 1920 women won the right to vote in national elections when the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution was ratified.11”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Her redoubtable grandmother said”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“we are only day laborers in the vineyard of the Lord—we are not the architect—the planner—God is that.”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Harry”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“his unannounced trip to Yalta to meet with Churchill and Stalin.”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“ince his inauguration for a fourth term”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Truman would not have been Frances’s choice for president. He came from a middle-class background and had not been raised to rule”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“She had”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Soon Hare and Lamba began a flagrant affair in which they were seen walking nude on the beaches of Long Island Sound”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Therefore”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“In those days, nothing upset us. We didn’t get upset about anybody’s ideology… You didn’t get upset because people had funny ideas. That was America.”2”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“The Labor Department’s once-somnolent Conciliation Service was called on again and again”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“The courts had come down against the labor movement over and over,”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“they suspected to be a sexual relationship between Frances and Roosevelt; her close friendship with the president made her character somewhat questionable to them.20”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Frances resented it when the union movement sought to take credit for advances that had really been won for it by middle-class social reformers.”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“Frances’s role as the strongest and most effective promoter of the labor movement within the Roosevelt administration”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“no union officials could speak for labor”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“intervention in California signaled to employers that the federal government was adopting a different approach to labor disputes.”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“With the labor movement so weak”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins

“legacy. About 44 million people collect Social Security checks each month; millions receive unemployment and worker’s compensation or the minimum wage; others get to go home after an eight-hour day because of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Very few know the name of the woman responsible for their benefits.”
― Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins