Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Barack Against the Boys," http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=489 WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. xix.
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Barack Against the Boys," http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=489 WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”
Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”
O. Henry book The Four Million
"The Gift of the Magi" - Full text online http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
Sex Slavery (1890)
Context: This, then, is the tyranny of the State; it denies, to both woman and man, the right to earn a living, and grants it as a privilege to a favored few who for that favor must pay ninety per cent toll to the granters of it. These two things, the mind domination of the Church, and the body domination of the State are the causes of sex slavery.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director