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Writing something for publication caused a small conflict for her, which had kept her from submitting her poems. Her words in print would make her both a public and a private woman. She hadn’t yet shared that concern with anyone, including
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“Old brooms swept away dust and disappointment, but both came back.”
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
“Birth and death. It’s a woman’s lot to mark her world by those bookends.”
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
“The things nearby, not the things afar Not what we seem but what we are These are the things that make or break that give the heart its joy or ache.”
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
“But when she watched Clara Belle prance around the room, singing, she wondered why such joy should be kept only in the kitchen or in a church choir. Why were women with gifts not allowed to show them? And she could hear that her daughter had a gifted singing voice.”
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
“Perhaps, Abigail thought, love is the only real balm to pain. Perhaps that was why her father had remarried so quickly. They could say “time heals all wounds,” but it wasn’t time, it was courage. It was being willing to risk love, after love had disappeared, after sorrow for whatever reason caught the heart up short and pierced it like an arrow.”
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
― Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
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