
Regarding Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Woman's Tribune http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies.html (22 February 1890)
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Regarding Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Woman's Tribune http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies.html (22 February 1890)
"The Hard Kind of Courage" in Harper's (October 1958) republished as "A Fly in Buttermilk" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“If I had plenty, I'd be content with what I have.”
If I Were a Cat.
Stanza 2.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)
Brief biography http://www.avanta.net/writings/biography/biography.html at Avanta.net (1999)
“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”
Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
Voces (1943)
As quoted in The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (2002) by James MacGregor Burns ad Susan Dunn, p. 563
Variant: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.