Hannah Crafts > Quotes

“For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative

“Those to whom man teaches little, nature like a wise and prudent mother teaches much.”
― Hannah Crafts

“At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative

“["...]I have learned what all who live in a land of slaver[y] must learn sooner or later; that is to process approbation where you cannot feel it; to be hard when most inclined to melt; and to say that all is right, and good; and true when you know that nothing could be more wrong and unjust.["]”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative

“Oh the difference to me” is the last line of William Wordsworth’s famous poem “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” (1799).”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative