Poverty History

Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:

    “It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to go together.”
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
    Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)