“At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.” PeopleWorldMomentsFactsBodyEyePainSufferingThreeEnjoyAirFeetHorrorHundredRateCornersSecondsSympathyScreamApathyDecayEnjoy LifeCrushedElevenDistressingCorners Of The World Author:Aldous Huxley
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.” Has BeensBigsPainSufferingValuesNumbersPayCompanyAmountHusbandCourtRateInstanceDamageProductiveCollarsPain And SufferingInsurance CompaniesHomemakerProductive Work Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender