Harriet Quotes
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
Tags: Everyday, Famous, Often ✍ Author: Kathryn LaskyMy office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
Tags: Children, Dead, Famous ✍ Author: Debbie MacomberWe had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Tags: Courage, Enemy, Times ✍ Author: Stokely CarmichaelOn the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
Tags: Fact, Her, She ✍ Author: Mary Stuart Masterson