Author: Lydia M. Child

Quotes

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

- Lydia M. Child

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

- Lydia M. Child

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

- Lydia M. Child

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

- Lydia M. Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

- Lydia M. Child

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