5 Quotes & Sayings By Cornelia Otis Skinner

Born in 1884, Cornelia Otis Skinner grew up in New York City. She attended Radcliffe College, where she received her A.B. degree in 1911. Her first job was as a stenographer for the League of Nations in Washington, D.C Read more

She met her future husband, George Lyman Kittredge, who was then an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, while visiting his home in Cambridge, Mass., and the two were married in 1915 while he was still on active duty with the United States Navy during World War I. At that time Mr. Kittredge was stationed at the Naval Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island.

Mrs. Kittredge accompanied her husband to Rhode Island when he took his leave of active duty after the war ended in 1919 and she also remained there while her husband taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelia Otis Skinner
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To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence. Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Cornelia Otis Skinner
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Cornelia Otis Skinner