Famous quotes containing the words mary b, mary and/or harris:
“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadership in industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
“Miss Mary Emerson is here,the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.”
—Mary B. Harris (18741957)