Attention Quote by Beth Macy

Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands…

— Claudette Colvin

“Harriet dreamt of someone well dressed and flamboyant, who spoke like the lead in a black and white film, who drank champagne like other…

— Georgiana Derwent

We learned about people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and Marian Anderson. Harriet Tubman was my favorite.

— Claudette Colvin

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas,…

— Laura Moriarty

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy…

— Christopher Hitchens

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like,…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“How I longed to tell her about Harriet--but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain and I realized, almost…

— Alan Bradley

I love Harriet Harman, she is a supporter of women of all parties, a kind word, a friendly voice, and this country is lucky…

— Jo Swinson

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more…

— Olivia Manning