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.… — 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… — 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)
