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One of the girls who was among my best friends came from a poverty-stricken home. Her family was delightful and I used to wonder how such things could happen...

— Frances Perkins A Woman Unafraid (1993)

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Who is that tall, thin young man with the pince-nez, who seems constantly to be looking down his nose at people?

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

I thought witch-hunting was a thing of the past, but that's what this 'red-baiting' immigration squad is doing. They see communists behind every foreign name.

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

From this day forward, I will be a Doer of the Word and not as Hearer only, whenever and wherever I see the need.

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

The day I need an armed bodyguard is the day I admit my job's too much for a woman.

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

Organized labor has always had one of its own people as Secretary and will expect to continue to have. I do not qualify.

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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