Skip to content

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist the right to life as a rich woman has it, the right to life, and the sun, and music, and art....The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.

— Rose Schneiderman

Another quote →

More quotes by Rose Schneiderman

Many in the audience were tired of resolutions being passed but never acted upon.

All for One (1967)

We have in recent years experienced a tremendous awakening who have risen up and struck against conditions.

Under What Conditions Women Work (1913)

If the women of leisure and opportunity would do as that young and extraordinary woman Carala Voerishoffer did we would more quickly get results.

Under What Conditions Women Work (1913)

The girls and women by their meetings and discussions come to understand and sympathize with each other, and more and more easily they act together..

A Cap Maker's Story (1905)

No amount of money is saved to break strikes and every possible means are used to continue to pay young women such wages upon which it is almost impossible for them to live.

Under What Conditions Women Work (1913)

All Rose Schneiderman quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Rose Schneiderman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.