Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Meaning of the quote
This quote means that Frances Perkins, a female politician, did not feel her gender held her back in most areas of her life, except when it came to the physical task of climbing trees. She found that being a woman only caused problems for her in this specific activity, but not in other aspects of her work or daily life.
About Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins was a pioneering American worker’s rights advocate who served as the first woman in the U.S. presidential cabinet as Secretary of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt. She played a crucial role in developing the Social Security system and labor policies during the New Deal era and World War II.
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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.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
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Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
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.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
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.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
In America, public opinion is the leader.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945
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.
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945