Hannah Woolley quotes

“Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.”
-- Hannah Woolley

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“The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.”
-- Hannah Woolley

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“Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies.”
-- Hannah Woolley

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“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”

“He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.”

“It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.”

“The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!”

Source : Andre Norton (2015). “Wraiths of Time”, p.13, Open Road Media

“I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.”

“They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.”

“The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.”

“You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.”

“I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.”