Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or women:
“The Irish say your trouble is their
trouble and your
joy their joy? I wish
I could believe it;
I am troubled, Im dissatisfied, Im Irish.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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