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Poverty is not the fault of the poor. It is the fault of a system that allows idleness at the top and starvation at the bottom.

— Elizabeth McCombs

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Let us prove ourselves as good as any man, and better than some.

There is no reason why a woman should not receive the same pay for the same work as a man. To argue otherwise is to argue against justice.

I would like to warn honourable members, however, that women are never satisfied unless they have their own way. It happens in this case that the woman’s way is the right way.

I do hope that the women of New Zealand will realise...I will be their representative first.

Forget I am a member of the Labour Party and remember that I am a woman

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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