Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

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    “Remember, a woman has to work harder than a man and have more patience in order to achieve success.”
    —Margaret Mary Morgan, U.S. suffragist, print shop owner, and politician. As quoted in Dianne Feinstein, ch. 5, by Jerry Roberts (1994)

    “Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;”
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    “We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy—for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals—than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)