Mary A. Livermore

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    O may I join the choir invisible
    Of those immortal dead who live again
    In minds made better by their presence:
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Parenting is the one area of my life where I can feel incompetent, out of control and like a total failure all of the time.
    —Attorney Father. As quoted in Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, ch. 4 (1994)

    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)