To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A literary woman's best critic is her husband. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
Life is moral responsibility. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Life is moral responsibility.
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to … - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to …
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to m… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to m…
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too…
The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutio… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutio…
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
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