"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, American Writer

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"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

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