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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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“Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”
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“It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.”
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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.”
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“A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.”
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“... what an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.”
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“Imagination is built upon knowledge.”
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“Death is not the worst sorrow.”
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, U.S. writer, reformer
(1844 - 1911)
Full name: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.