Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowewas an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 June 1811
CityLitchfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul ...
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?