Famous quotes containing the words aids, memorial and/or quilt:
“Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbors roof arms his hands with fire.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“this quilt might be
the only perfect artifact a woman
would ever see, yet she did not doubt
what we had forgotten, that out of her
potatoes and colic, sawdust and blood
she could create ...”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
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