Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:
“I write mainly for the kindly race of women. I am their sister, and in no way exempt from their sorrowful lot. I have drank [sic] the cup of their limitations to the dregs, and if my experience can help any sad or doubtful woman to outleap her own shadow, and to stand bravely out in the sunshine to meet her destiny, whatever it may be, I shall have done well; I have not written this book in vain.”
—Amelia E. Barr (18311919)
“Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branchll go a-singin as it pass.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly acquired valueto myself, to my family, and to the world.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)