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“embroiderers.” Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and “be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated” in accordance with the roles to which they might be called. For, she continued, “when a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“their goals was to organize workers into one giant union that would one day topple capitalism, a mission that suited anarchists just fine. The”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“Here’s what I think. I think that true love allows for each person to find happiness and contentment individually as well as together. You need to go do this, Suzanne—and for that matter, so do I. How can we build a life together until we’re sure of what we each want and need?”
― Anna Schmidt, The Peacemakers Trilogy

“Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory