Collecting Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired…

— J. R. Moehringer

“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she…

— Tracy Chevalier

“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with…

— Darrell Drake

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its…

— Tracy Chevalier

Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It…

— John Henry Newman

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the…

— Battiscombe G. Gunn

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

— Thomas Carlyle

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the…

— Chath Piersath

“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.”

— Alexandre Dumas

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

— William Wordsworth