Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes - Page 2

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• A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Art, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Way, Novelists, Purpose

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• The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Identity, Personal Identity

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• Life is moral responsibility.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Responsibility, Moral, Life Is

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• Death is not the worst sorrow.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Death, Sorrow, Worst

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• A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Marriage, Husband, Women

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• ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Notebook, Beautiful, Lying

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• I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Drawing, Judging

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• Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Law, Dresses, Attention

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• I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Mother, Children, Book

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• The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Dream, Artist, Imagination

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• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Sacrifice

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