"We believed that growth through Local Government, and……" — Mary Augusta Ward
"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."
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Mary Augusta Ward
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25 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest…
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a…
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found…
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing…
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties…
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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