I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.


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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE
I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE
As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN
Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER
What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN
[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN
Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN
I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN
Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON
We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN
....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN
Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN
If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN