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> [The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/the-war-between-authors-and-publishers-has-been-a-conflict-of-ages-on/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

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## More by Mary Abigail Dodge

> [One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/one-ought-not-to-write-for-money-but-i-consider-it-a-first-duty-after/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/what-s-virtue-in-a-man-can-t-be-virtue-in-a-cat/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/man-has-subdued-the-world-but-woman-has-subdued-man-mind-and-muscle/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/men-as-yet-need-some-help-to-their-imagination-there-remains-still/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/man-pays-deference-to-woman-instinctively-involuntarily-not-because/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/people-cry-out-and-deplore-the-unremunerative-employment-of-woman-the/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/the-war-between-authors-and-publishers-has-been-a-conflict-of-ages-on/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/christ-made-no-distinction-but-opened-the-door-wide-to-woman-as-to-man/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/it-is-the-crushed-grape-that-gives-out-the-blood-red-wine-it-is-the/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/whatever-an-author-puts-between-the-two-covers-of-his-book-is-public/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Love me, and tell me so sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/love-me-and-tell-me-so-sometimes/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/genius-is-expansive-irresistible-and-irresistibly-expansive-if-it-is/)

[Mary Abigail Dodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-abigail-dodge/)

> [There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-abigail-dodge/there-is-generally-no-such-thing-as-duty-to-the-people-who-do-it-they/)

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