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In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I never believed I will be the Breadwinner in my family, But I give Lord God Almighty Thanks! -- Genereux Philip
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. -- Dorothy Fields
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. -- Stephen Colbert
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. `Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family. -- Katie Pavlich
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children. -- Thomas Perez
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on. -- Betty Friedan
I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience. -- Shirley Bassey
I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different. -- Charisma Carpenter
My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner. -- Brian Blessed
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. -- Katherine Jenkins
A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time? -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before. -- Merle Shain
Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception. -- Colin Jost
I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience -- Shirley Bassey

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