Work Quotes

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well."

"Work, as structured now, is another form of enslavement."

"Rhetoric has its place but we need action and results."

"Work toward justice is work toward our own humanity."

"The work we do is both personal transformation and social change."

"The point is to make a living, to survive, and to do it with dignity."

"Women's work is always undervalued because women are undervalued."

"Life as we know it is virtually a system of barter."

"I'm not a housewife nor a career woman; I'm a writer."

"Work is love made visible."

"The work of justice is never finished; each generation must take it up anew."

"I never really understood the concept of retirement."

"Work should be meaningful and transformative"

"The work of building a just world is never completed."

"The most important work happens in our communities."

"Women's unpaid domestic work is the foundation upon which all capitalism rests."

"The emotional labor women perform is unpaid, unrecognized, and absolutely essential to society."

"Women's unpaid labor in homes and families is the most undervalued work in society."

"Middle-class women still work, but they pretend not to."

"A woman's work is never done because it does not produce a product."

"Intersectionality is a practice, not just a theory—it requires ongoing commitment."

"The work of building intersectional solidarity is the work of our time."

"Work that honors the whole person leads to fulfillment."

"Prostitution is not a job like other jobs; it is a system of exploitation."

"Women's labor—emotional, sexual, and domestic—is stolen and unpaid."

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

"The work of feminism is never finished because freedom is not a destination."

"The work of freedom is never finished."

"A woman has to continually prove her competence in ways that men simply do not."

"The unpaid labor of women has been rendered invisible by society."