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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- B.F. Skinner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for B. F. Skinner: life dates 1904 to 1990. Wikidata Q213195, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213195 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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