| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17488 |
| QUOTATION: | ...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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948), U.S. journalist. A Woman of Fifty, 2nd. ed., ch. 2 (1924).
On growing up and envisioning her future in the late 1800s. She eventually became an important journalist, suffragist, and social reform advocate. |
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