Mary Ann Holmes

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary and/or ann:

    Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.
    —Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)