“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”

—  Jane Addams

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 1

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pioneer settlement social worker 1860–1935

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