Mary A. Ward
Mary A. Ward
thinking mind doe
Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
girl summer book
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
teacher clever children
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
mind belief conviction
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
christian teacher joy
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
marriage partnership
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
trust art choices
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
real women government
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
interesting very-interesting
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
girl taken school
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
mother daughter children
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
book writing exercise
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
men monopoly conscience
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
years training intellectual
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.