Famous quotes containing the words wilkins freeman, mary e, wilkins and/or freeman:
“... aside from the financial aspect, [there] is more: the life of my work. I feel that is all I came into the world for, and have failed dismally if it is not a success.”
—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (18521930)
“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)
“... aside from the financial aspect, [there] is more: the life of my work. I feel that is all I came into the world for, and have failed dismally if it is not a success.”
—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (18521930)
“grandmama
sewing a new
button on my last year
ragdoll.”
—Carol Freeman (b. 1941)