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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.