Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
“God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.”
“We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”