From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. – Honore de Balzac

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle. – Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851

Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle – that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sewing forever, housework whenever. – Author Unknown