Quotes by Julia Ward Howe
For the first time I saw a true picture of the neglected children of the poor-pale and wan, and I saw that among the wretched even childhood is shorn of its beauty.
We bore the harassing conversation as long as we could.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
The desolate hush which fell upon our house... silent and cold, in the midst of weeping friends and children.
I threw away, once and forever, the thought of the terrible hell which till then had always formed a part of my belief.
Women speakers were few in those days, and were frowned upon by general society.
I do not think that I shall ever consider music as a serious occupation instead of a recreation.
The city seems to contain scarce anything but artists, priests and beggars. I have seen the Pope three times, he looked like an old woman dressed up very finely.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
Chev receives a great deal of attention... I do not like that the pretty women should pay him so many compliments... it will turn his little head!
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
I should like to find out how Joshua contrived to make the sun stand still.
I am sad and spleeny, and begin to have fears that I may not be after all the greatest woman alive.
These three years of married life have wiped out, as with a sponge, all living memory of the past-I have gone with you to a new world. I will not expect too much from you.
We must help our fellow man against the most cruel beast of all, the human tiger.
I turned against my New Testament and said, I know you all by heart!
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
I believe I shall live to see women in New York and some of the other states enfranchised, but not in Massachusetts.
My book came out on Friday last. The title simply, Passion Flowers, was approved by Longfellow.
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
The beaux are all gone, so that we are quite deserted.
I esteem this century, now at its close, to have deserved a record among those which have been great landmarks in human history.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
The Society of Good People is always Good Society.
