Joan Coxsedge quotes

“We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.”
-- Joan Coxsedge

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“American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.”

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

“Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.”

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”

“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.”

“Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.”

“I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.”

Source : "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

“My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster