335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

At last I have come into a dreamland...

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.