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
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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.
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 ...
Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Humankind above all is lazy.