5 Quotes by Elizabeth Cobbs

One had children without knowing all that would be required to raise them, but a woman did whatever was necessary to make them behave and meet their needs. Then she prayed.

Sister loyalty was Newton's first law. Fidelity to family and parents was the second.

you may not care about marriage now, Betsey, but you'll change your mind someday. Someday you will. And if you've given no thought to how to choose a man you can live with, you're going to end up with someone ugly or poor. Or worse, dull""If I ever marry I don't want a husband I can live with. I want one I cannot live without.

Tame or wild, all the animals she knew on the farm were far from dumb, though that’s what ignorant, unimaginative people called them.

Laurens, Lafayette, and Hamilton--all roughly the same age-- had become inseparable when they discovered they shared the conviction that all men should be free, including blacks.