Nineteenth Quotes

• In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • American
  • Because
  • Century

• We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

  

  Geoffrey Blainey
  • Forget
  • Contrast
  • Turned