Domestic Servants Quotes

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

It is a debasement of our common humanity that must be called by its true name, modern slavery …. When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving—that’s slavery.

If we want it, we will have machines who will take care of us.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.