It is to be lamented that the principle of national has had very little nourishment in our country, and, instead, has given place ...to sectional or state partialities. What more promising method for remedying this defect than by uniting American women of every state and every section in a common effort for our whole country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as... good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians "had lost a great deal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished trav...eler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of i...t? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.... Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the opportunity offered by life to women is far in excess of any offered to men. To be the inspiration is more than to be the ...tool. To create the world, a greater thing than to reform it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[President Ellen Wood Hall is] short, with short gray hair that is not in the least bit attractive, and wears godawful clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »