The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me ...
ATTRIBUTION:
Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944), U.S. author. All in the Day’s Work, ch. 5 (1939).
On other women’s reactions when she decided to leave a secure but limited job at The Chautauquan, a magazine, to go to Paris as a free-lance journalist.
