| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17485 |
| QUOTATION: | I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948), U.S. journalist. A Woman of Fifty, 2nd. ed., ch. 3 (1924).
On being a very young woman writer on her own in New York City around the turn of the century. Eventually, after a failed marriage, she became a prominent journalist. |
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