Quaker Women

Famous quotes containing the words quaker and/or women:

    “this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
    Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
    Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)