| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30958 |
| QUOTATION: | ... often in the heat of noonday, leaning on a hoe, looking across valleys at the mountains, so blue, so close, my only conscious thought was, “How can I ever get away from here? How can I get to where they have books, where I can be educated?” I worked hard, always waiting for something to happen to change things. There came a time when I knew I must make them happen; that no one would do anything about it for me. And I did. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Belinda Jelliffe (1892–1979), U.S. nurse and autobiographer. For Dear Life, ch. 1 (1936).
Jelliffe was one of ten children born to hardworking North Carolina tobacco farmers. Eventually, she escaped farming and became a nurse. |
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