Quilt Historian

Famous quotes containing the words quilt and/or historian:

    this quilt might be
    the only perfect artifact a woman
    would ever see, yet she did not doubt
    what we had forgotten, that out of her
    potatoes and colic, sawdust and blood
    she could create ...
    Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.
    —W.R. (William Ralph)