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 and/or adams:

    Mistress, there are portents abroad of magic and might,
    And things that are yet to be done. Open the door!
    —Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (b. 1893)

    I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)