Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowewas an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 June 1811
CityLitchfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes about
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
A woman's health is her capital.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ...
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.