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
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Women are the true modelers of social order.
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.
the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.