More From George Eliot
More In History
- "It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again."― Audre Lorde
- "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."― Jessamyn West
- "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream."― Thomas Francis Meagher