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If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

— Lucy Stone

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

— O. Henry

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

— Billie Jean King

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

— Wayne Newton

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

— Barbara Mikulski

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

— Mae West

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

— Anton Chekhov

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool and her money are soon courted.

— Helen Rowland

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

— Harry Golden

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

— John Ciardi