Frances Perkins Quotes

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins

Time, Women, Long

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins

Woman, Trees, Climbing

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Frances Perkins

Depression, Everyone, Progress

In America, public opinion is the leader.
Frances Perkins

America, Leader, Opinion

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins

History, Courage, Long

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
Frances Perkins

Thinking, Him, Made

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
Frances Perkins

Education, Good, Hope

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 10, 1882

Died: May 14, 1965

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