Jane Addams Quotes:
Ocupation: Sociologist
Life: September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935
Birthday: September 6
Death: May 21
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.
source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.7, Courier Corporation
topic: Father, Believe, Ambition, Hull House
