Jane Adams

Jane Adams is the name of:

  • Jane Adams (writer) (born 1960), British writer
  • Jane Adams (actress) (born 1965), American film, television and theatre actress
  • Jane Adams (camogie), camogie player
  • Jane Addams (1860–1935), pioneer settlement worker, Christian pacifist, and the first American female Nobel peace laureate
  • Poni Adams (born 1921), American actress

Famous quotes containing the words jane adams, jane and/or adams:

    It’s a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was “mine.”
    Jane Adams (20th century)

    To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination—everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
    —John Adams (1735–1826)