I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them f
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In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite p
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... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it
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... we did not call ourselves ladies. We did not forget that we were working-girls, wearing coarse aprons suitable to our work, an
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The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me,--a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses, and I did
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A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications whi
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... possibly there is no needful occupation which is wholly unbeautiful. The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it--wheth
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Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],
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I went back to my work, but now without enthusiasm. I had looked through an open door that I was not willing to see shut upon me.
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We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks--the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of cou
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