Julia Ward
Julia Ward
inspirational-life expression life-is
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
optimistic thinking views
Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
feminist doubt study
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
debt
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
taken son charity
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
sacrifice men brutality
Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
sex thinking individual
I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.
going-out
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
sight limits metamorphosis
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
marching-on lamps evening
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
civilization broken eggshells
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
truth judging evil
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
beauty should profession
It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
husband my-husband known
I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.