Eyed Susan Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words eyed, susan and/or stakes:

“This morning, there flew up the lane
A timid lady-bird to our bird-bath
And eyed her image dolefully as death;”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race.”
—Eliza Archard Connor, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 9, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)