Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Writing
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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.
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.
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I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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