Writing Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

8 Writing quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Stowe’s eight short thoughts reveal her conviction that words can change hearts. She emphasizes empathy, justice, and the responsibility of the writer to society. A concise, powerful collection for those who see literature as a force for good.

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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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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth…

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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.…

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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…

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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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Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself…

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

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“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected…

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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there…

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I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,…

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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers…

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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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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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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from…

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,…

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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

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We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful…

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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

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