Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

Famous quotes containing the words leigh and/or smith:

    Thank God! none of my children have an atom of poetry in their composition!
    —Augusta Leigh (1783–1851)

    Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    —Lillian Smith (1897–1966)