...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it… — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“All over the gray facade of his father's house in scarlet letters he wrote: ELLIOT SCHAFER. He almost added: "was here" but… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
“I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small… — Julie Metz Copy Share Image
Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Once I was back in the office, I stopped by Mags’s cubicle and rested my arms on the top of one of… — Erin Lyon Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
“Many of you remember The Scarlet Letter, the novel that wardrobed its protagonist in a stigma or sign of reproach. But “A”… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“But if Americans chose to pit themselves against Russia, thinking she was feeble and weak, they would be surprised. A student in… — Jason Matthews Copy Share Image
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Ironically, we were studying 'The Scarlet Letter,' but isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always seems to… — Easy A 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
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
~Words hurt and words cause pain. words coat your heart in a vast lonely stain such words have made me wonder inside… — Angel_eyes Copy Share Image
She is running A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction She is trying But the canyon's ever widening In the… — Casting Crowns 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
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he… — Kathy Acker 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
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
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything.… — Tool Copy Share Image
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated… — Toni Braxton 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
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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