Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth, jane and/or coatsworth:
“Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it’s God’s way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
—“Marcy.” As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, Introduction, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)
““Little I ask
And that little is not granted.”
There are few crumbs
In this world any more.”
—Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (b. 1893)