Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know dozens of women who work. . . . Probably every one of them would rather be at home if she had a husband earning an income sufficient to live on. Believe me, a woman who works eight or nine hours a day and then goes home and does her housework, cooking and sewing at night, hasn't much time to think of "fancy clothes...
Renoir's painter's tastes were hearty: he liked healthy servant girls with ruddy skin and ample breasts. Said he: "Have you ever seen a society woman whose hands were worth painting? A woman's hands are lovely if they are accustomed to housework. I had just as lief paint the first old crock that comes along, just so long as she has a skin that takes the light." According to Mme. Renoir, all her husband asked of a cook was that she have the proper sort of skin. Said he: "A painter who has the feel...