“Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Eve's Diary
Source: The Diary of Adam and Eve
“The first idea was not our own. Adam
In Eden was the father of Descartes
And eve made air the mirror of herself,
Of her sons and of her daughters.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The first idea was not our own. Adam
In Eden was the father of Descartes
And eve made air the mirror of herself,
O…" by Wallace Stevens?
Wallace Stevens278
American poet 1879–1955Related quotes
“But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
“The new earth will complete God’s program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.”
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 119
“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
José Luis Mollaghan (1946) Argentinian archbishop
Argentinean bishop: Rosary helps Catholics face difficulties of life https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21189/argentinean-bishop-rosary-helps-catholics-face-difficulties-of-life (18 October 2010)
Margaret Sanger book Woman and the New Race
Source: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?"
“Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"Young and Old"
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (20 March 1791)
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"The Island", in Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (1929), p. 1, also in Collected Poems (1934), p. 54