More from Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
  2. So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!
  3. 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.
  4. '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…
  5. Women are the real architects of society.
  6. 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…
  7. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
  8. The novel has enormous power. Uncle Tom's Cabin may be a tearjerker, but it succeeds. Many readers find their eyes filling up as Eliza clim…

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