Bookshelves Quotes by 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…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

...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

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

...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

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

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

...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

— Rheta Childe Dorr

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

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

...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

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