Jane Grey Swisshelm

Famous quotes containing the words grey swisshelm, jane, grey and/or swisshelm:

    Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take one step at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.
    —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)

    They plough, harrow, reap, dig, make hay, rake, bind grain, thresh, chop wood, milk, churn, do anything that is hard work, physical labor, and who says anything against it?
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)