...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… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
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 onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
...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… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
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… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists. — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Rheta Childe Dorr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01c/rheta-childe-dorr-37217_century_the-theory-before-the-twentieth-century_2223271.jpg)
