Eliza Calvert Hall Quotes

1856–1935 United States

Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain (née Calvert) (February 11, 1856 – December 20, 1935) was an American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist from Bowling Green in western Kentucky in the United States. Lida Obenchain, writing with the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, advocated for the ability of woman to marry and divorce, for a married woman to own property and write a will separate from her husband in her fictional work and her opinion pieces.

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I've noticed that whenever a woman's willin' to be imposed upon there's always a man standin' 'round ready to do the imposin'.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907)

It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.

Eliza Calvert (1910)

Patchwork? Ah, no! It was memory, imagination, history, biography, joy, sorrow, philosophy, religion, romance, realism, life, love and death; and over all, like a halo, the love of the artist for his work and the soul's longing for earthly immortality.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eliza Calvert Hall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.