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Hilda Scott, born in 1915, is an outstanding author whose works are known for their profound insight and unique narrative style.

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“The personal is not just political. It is also economic.”

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Book:Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty

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“At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.”

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“Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.”

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“it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.”

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“The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.”

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“What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.”

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Born: 1915
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