Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Writing, Humanity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Philip Van Doren Stern (1964). “The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin”, New York : Paul S. Eriksson

• I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Uncles, Inspiration, Writing

• The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Agency, Evil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.162, Library of Alexandria

• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Men, History

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873). “The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine”, p.165

• Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Agony, Sorrow

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.300

• If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Rooms, Ifs

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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