Advancement Quote by Jennifer Chiaverini

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

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

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Norton, 1987); Joan E. Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“Mary, throughout her life, sought her friendships with women. She was attracted to sisterly relationships where she, a queen since birth, was naturally deferred…

— Jane Dunn

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

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer…

— Sally Field

“Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's being quite…

— Jane Austen

“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great…

— Jacqueline Whitmore

“Life and Letters (New York: Knopf, 1972); and John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln (New York: Dutton, 1942). Of course, no work was more…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was…

— Stephen Chbosky

I like to say, very glibly, that I did no research for this play about Mary Todd Lincoln.

— Cole Escola

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead