A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother… — Amy Hatvany (Yurk Copy Share Image
Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
“As Hester Prynne seemed to see some trace of her own sin in every bosom, by the glare of the Scarlet Letter… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another’s actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
