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What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on…

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Jennifer Chiaverini has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work…
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need…
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear…
Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your…
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I…
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless…
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set…
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a…
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship…
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,…

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Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and… — Moliere
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. — Martin Luther
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run… — Victoria Beckham
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who… — Michel de Montaigne
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation,… — Walter Raleigh
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. — Douglas William Jerrold
I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. — Joan Rivers
Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking… — Elle Fanning
Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a… — Beatrix Potter
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit… — John Milton

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