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There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both. There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

Rheta Childe Dorr

working mothers | self-support | mothers and sons

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At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed on ... - MORE At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed on printed fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

Rheta Childe Dorr

writers and writing | ambition | books

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The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were ... - MORE The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

Rheta Childe Dorr

employment of women | protection of women

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...women were fighting for limited freedom, the vote and more education. I wanted all the freedom, all the opportunity, all the eq... - MORE ...women were fighting for limited freedom, the vote and more education. I wanted all the freedom, all the opportunity, all the equality there was in the world. I wanted to belong to the human race, not to a ladies' aid society to the human race.

Rheta Childe Dorr

women's rights | woman suffrage movement | ambition

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With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure... - MORE With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.

Rheta Childe Dorr

marriage | ambition | writers and writing

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...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but rather ... - MORE ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but rather intellectual biologists and psychologists.

Rheta Childe Dorr

feminism | social reform | woman suffrage

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Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social or... - MORE Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Rheta Childe Dorr

feminism: early 20th century | Boston, Massachusetts

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Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists... - MORE Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.

Rheta Childe Dorr

journalism | journalists | social/political activism

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...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may b... - MORE ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

Rheta Childe Dorr

women studies | feminism | narcissism

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The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same ... - MORE The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same the artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.

Rheta Childe Dorr

artists | dreams

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