Lydia Sigourney Quotes - Page 2

• O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Dark, Garden

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• Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spring, Taken, Loss

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to Young Ladies”, p.18

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• As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Country, Successful, Roles

  "Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut". Book by Melissa Ladd Teed, 1999.

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• The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Vanity, Talking, Shining

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Letters to young ladies”, p.175

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