After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
Annie OakleyMy motherโฆwas perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.
Annie OakleyGod intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
Annie Oakley