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"Women's domestic labor preserved ethnic and religious
practices. Women who shared neither culture nor language forged
multicultural communities, helping one another give birth,
feed threshing crews, nurse the sick, and survive on scarce
resources."
Elizabeth
Jameson,
University
of Calgary
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"I estimate the value of my work for these 35 years as
$141,578. I have cooked 361,351 meals, baked 78,800 loaves of
bread, 12,045 cakes, 5,158 pies, preserved 3,300 quarts of fruit,
churned 13,728 pounds of butter and raised 4,950 poultry."
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