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> [But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/but-with-the-slow-menace-of-a-glacier-depression-came-on-no-one-had/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

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## More by Frances Perkins

> [Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/out-of-our-first-century-of-national-life-we-evolved-the-ethical/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/our-idea-of-what-constitutes-social-good-has-advanced-with-the/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/to-one-who-believes-that-really-good-industrial-conditions-are-the/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/but-with-the-slow-menace-of-a-glacier-depression-came-on-no-one-had/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/most-of-man-s-problems-upon-this-planet-in-the-long-history-of-the/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/there-was-a-stricken-conscience-of-public-guilt-and-we-all-felt-that/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/being-a-woman-has-only-bothered-me-in-climbing-trees/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/it-s-only-when-we-re-relaxed-that-the-thing-way-down-deep-in-all-of/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/the-accusation-that-i-am-a-woman-is-incontrovertible/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/the-quality-of-his-being-one-with-the-people-of-having-no-artificial/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/the-door-might-not-be-opened-to-a-woman-again-for-a-long-long-time/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/you-can-always-get-sympathy-by-using-the-word-small-with-little/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/the-people-are-what-matter-to-government-and-a-government-should-aim/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/i-came-to-washington-to-work-for-god-fdr-and-the-millions-of/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

> [“The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-perkins/the-new-deal-began-on-march-25th-1911-the-day-that-the-triangle/)

[Frances Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-perkins/)

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