Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch Quotes

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

Federal officials should serve without pay.

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

A lot of work - unattributed, with no dollars - goes into taking care of kids.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.

Ultimately, some of these things I did not get paid for, they did not further my career, they were done just for fun.

What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game - straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever - to volunteer with us, as long as they have something of value to offer and they see the value in our community.

It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.

There's so much of this thing now, where you're supposed to do all the work before you get the commission. I think it's really good to try to resist that. If you just have a week to come up with a pitch for something, your ideas aren't going to be very good. Get your income from somewhere else, and keep your writing not tied into these contracts.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.

There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.

The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive.

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.

For years, I was 'just' a stay at home mum and wife - which, by the way, is harder than any other job I've ever had.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.