This is a bit long, but is my favorite -
"I've been a hard worker all my life, but most all my work has been the kind that "perishes with the usin'", as the Bible says. That's the discouragin' thing about a woman's work. If a woman was to see all the dishes that she had to wash before she died piled up before her in one pile, she'd lie down and die right then and there. I've always had the name o' bein' a good housekeeper, but when I'm dead and gone there ain't anybody goin' to think o' the floors I've swept, and the tables I've scrubbed and the old clothes I've patched and the stockin's I've darned, but when one of my grandchildren or great-grandchildren sees one o' these quilts, they'll think about Aunt Jane, and , wherever I am then, I'll know I ain't forgotten."
quote from AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY by Eliza Calvert Hall
I have this hanging by my sewing machine. I can see, where I sit, the quilt my grandmother made and the quilts that my mother made and iI know that they "ain't forgotten" and I know they know too. Edie