Mary A. Livermore

Famous quotes containing the words mary a, mary and/or livermore:

    “I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don’t know.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “O how terrible it must be for a young man—
    seated before a family and the family thinking
    We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
    After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”
    —Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

    “Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.”
    —Mary A. Livermore (1821–1905)