Famous quotes containing the words ellen rodgers, ellen and/or rodgers:
“I dont think the ladies in town accepted the fact that I worked. That was the point at which I said to myself, well, youre always going to be out of step and you might as well face it.”
—Ellen Rodgers (b. c. 1930)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 18241898, U.S. womens magazine editor and womans club movement pioneer. Demorests Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)
“No bones made, bans laid, or boons expected,
No contracts, entails, hereditaments,
Anything at all that might tie or hem.”
—William Robert Rodgers (19091969)