If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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