American Architect

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or architect:

    “The novel is, or may be, among the mightiest instruments for swaying the heart and guiding the lives of men.”
    —P., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 357-9 (August 1828)

    “It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.”
    —Eleanore Kendall Pettersen (b. 1916)