Ann Haydon Jones

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    I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    —Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)

    Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
    —Mother Jones (1830–1930)