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I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh ...
I was always pretending that I was a poor-working-girl, always forgetting that I was really poor M also a working girl.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of indep ...
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence ...
... there was always the assumption, even when I was getting a graduate degree in education, that any work I did was temporary, so ...
I do not claim that all women, or a large portion of them, should enter into independent business relations with the world, but I ...
There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.
...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt th ...
Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as muc ...
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happy ...
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