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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
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Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
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