Free Mining

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or mining:

    And I will wear what dresses I choose!
    And I will dance, and what’s to lose!
    I’m free of you, you little prick,
    and I’m the one can make it stick.
    Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

    For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.
    Stephanie Coontz (20th century)