The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
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Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harper
What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.
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I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.
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There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.
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