"[I] wrote to anybody I knew who had any connection at all with charities to say I wanted a job, but had no experience."
— Frances Perkins

January 1, 1970

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On her experience following her decision to stop teaching and to do social work, prior to obtaining a job investigating abuses of girls and women with the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association.