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Mary Abigail Dodge
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“It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine. It is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stumbling-Blocks (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), Ch. XV, p. 434
“Love me, and tell me so sometimes.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Atmosphere (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), Ch. XI, p. 198.
“Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), p. 205
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more,—and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indeed, there is generally no such thing as duty to the people who really do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not shirking, its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful, or truthful, or wise, or foolish, or proper, but because she is woman, and he can not help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked facts.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”
Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source