workhouse quotes

Four spectres haunt the poorold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.

- David, 1st Earl Lloyd George (of Dwyfor)
  Speech, Reading,1  Jan.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Women in the Home'.

Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Under MilkWood.