Life Quote by Parents' National Education Union

“The way in which Miss Mason started the college was the way in which she did everything:—she did not wait for funds; she knew…

— Parents' National Education Union

“There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was…

— George Eliot

“Miss Mason had a genius for education. She had an inbred good sense and an unfatigued sensibility. Her mind was tempered by great literature.…

— Parents' National Education Union

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

— Matthew Quick

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to…

— Dan Brown

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could…

— Ruth Ozeki

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“Christie was one of that large class of women who, moderately endowed with talents, earnest and true-hearted, are driven by necessity, temperament, or principle…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest…

— Jill Ker Conway