"Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength,……" — 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 those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman."
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23 Quotes by Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaverini has 23 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value…
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Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
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People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as…
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What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown,…
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Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own…
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Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and…
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Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
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Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of…
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art.…
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years…
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When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially…
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I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do.…
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More Ambitious Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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