. . . I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work … - Rheta Childe Dorr

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I call it the 'doll house,'. . . It's absolutely gorgeous, especially at this time of year. It's a crisp sky and, you know, if we wake up on a clear morning, and then I take little Norm out for a walk, have a little coffee on the deck.

Rheta Childe Dorr

. . . I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.

Ambition, Fount, Ideas, Self, Thought, Vaguely

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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 by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

Entitled, Jobs, Men, Service, Wages, World

. . . I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

Boy, Boys, Lay, Opportunity, Sex, Wore

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

Boy, Boys, Choose, My Boys, Question, Work

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.

Attained, Dream, Grasp, Humility, Mean, Men

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is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Boston, Fire, Iron, Realize, State, Woman