M. Carey Thomas

Martha Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 - December 2, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.

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    ... my one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science ... that a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
    —M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935)

    I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
    —George Carey (b. 1935)

    But wishes breed not, neither
    Can we fend off rock arrival,
    Lie watching yellow until the golden weather
    Breaks, O my heart’s blood, like a heart and hill.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)