Famous quotes containing the words base, ball and/or club:
“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and manage by base arts a husband or a father,I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (18221904)
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is madewhen felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, feltit must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—Jennie June Croly 18291901, U.S. founder of the womans club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorests Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)