Jane Grey Swisshelm

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    I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    I want the kind of job that is interesting but doesn’t take very much time.
    Anonymous 14-year-old, U.S. niece of author Jane O’Reilly. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)

    A face peered. All the grey night
    In chaos of vacancy shone;
    Naught but vast sorrow was there—
    The sweet cheat gone.
    Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

    I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)