I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have much to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.
ATTRIBUTION:
Harriet A. Brown, U.S. inventor and educator. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992).
Said in 1871. Brown headed the Boston Dress-cutting College, said to be “the only dresscutting and making college in the United States.”
