Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, switzerland and/or era:
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“I feel as tall as you.”
—Ellis Meredith, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 14, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)