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I
gave my mother the pay envelop and she gave me 10 cents a day.
One day I wanted a more expensive blouse than my mother would
allow. My father came in on this argument and settled the dispute.
He said to my mother, I should be my own boss and pay a certain
amount into the household. This way I could take care of myself
and buy what I wanted. I used the money for clothes for myself,
my sisters, fancy curtains and other goodies, even though my mother
complained.
Judith
Weissman quoted in Ewen, Immigrant Women, 108
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