It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.


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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fiel...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ...
HARRIET WALTER
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.
HARRIET BRAIKER
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
HARRIET BRAIKER
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at al...
HARRIET LERNER
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
HARRIET WOODS
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure prepara...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need ...
HARRIET WALTER
The administrative suspension was lifted as soon as my dues were received.
HARRIET MIERS
We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council.
HARRIET MIERS
I believe employers should be able to pick the best qualified for any position to be filled consider...
HARRIET MIERS
I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS
Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that i...
HARRIET MIERS
I truly believe if the governor told her she should be an Astronaut, she would do her best to become...
HARRIET MIERS
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to...
HARRIET LERNER
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMAN
You'll be free or die!
HARRIET TUBMAN
. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'
HARRIET MONROE
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better.
HARRIET MONROE
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hear...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
There is no forethought or editing when I paint. These covered canvases are all over my studio. When...
HARRIET WISEMAN
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
HARRIET NELSON
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN
Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to c...
HARRIET ZIEFERT
Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and su...
HARRIET BROWN
You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.
HARRIET EVANS
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to...
HARRIET ZIEFERT
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to con...
HARRIET ZIEFERT
I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory ov...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
HARRIET MONROE