More from Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
  2. I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
  3. Women are the real architects of society.
  4. So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!
  5. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
  6. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' came from the heart rather than the head. It was an outburst of deep feeling, a cry in the darkness. The writer no more…
  7. To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be wor…
  8. Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to…

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