問題は「どうやって職に就くか」ではなく「職に就いた後どうやって生きるか」だった。 - ドロシー（・Ｍ）・リチャードソン (1873 - 1957): 『長い一日：ニューヨークで働く一人の少女が自らを語るストーリー』
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The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get. - Dorothy (Miller) Richardson (1873 - 1957): The Long Day: the Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself
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