Margaret BondfieldT. Seltzer, Incorporated, 1925 - 191 páginas |
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Página 13 - Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow, As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
Página 52 - I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are, you have slumbered upon yourself all your life...
Página 37 - It's easy to talk of the patience of Job. Humph ! Job hed nothin' to try him ! Ef he'd been married to 'Bijah Brown, folks wouldn't have dared come nigh him. Trials, indeed ! Now I'll tell you what — ef you want to be sick of your life, Jest come and change places with me a spell — for I'm an inventor's wife. And sech inventions ! I'm never sure, when I take up my coffee-pot, That 'Bijah hain't ben "improvin"' it, and it mayn't go off like a shot.
Página 54 - I inhale great draughts of space, The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine. I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.
Página 138 - Government that the whole industrial power of the organised workers will be used to defeat this war...
Página 102 - Please send an organiser at once, for our Amalgamated Society has decided that, if the women of this town cannot be organised, they must be exterminated.
Página 78 - I remember when I was a child that the last years of my old father's life were darkened by his fear of the workhouse. Young as I was, I felt it was one of the irons that enter into the soul, and I made up my mind I would fight to get a decent old age pension for the aged of this country
Página 139 - I should have said that the audience was mainly middle-class, and that fivesixths of it was English, not Irish. But the key had been pitched much too low, and when Miss Bondfield raised it to the crusading point, she got in response such a change of feeling as I have never seen in any great popular meeting, even of the fervent Gladstonian days. The whole mass rose at her, Lord Aberdeen leading its cheers with his skull-cap.
Página 44 - My sleeping-room was on the ground floor, with the window facing on to the street, so that one could step into the street from the window and back into the room from the street, without going through the door at all. I was put into a room with a woman of mature age who had a life of a most undesirable kind; that was my first experience of a living-in house.
Página 50 - I could call my own, I would wait till one or two of my room-mates were asleep, and then stealthily, with the feeling...