Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.
Life is moral responsibility. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Life is moral responsibility.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
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.
A literary woman's best critic is her husband. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
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 …
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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