Quotes from authors passed in 1880
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot

Arnold J. Toynbee
Steven Bauer
Sheryl Swoopes
Nana Visitor
Edward Bernays
Michael Dukakis
Henry Villard
Arundhati Roy