Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

“According to her views,” her niece later recalled, “little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say ‘yes, ma’am’ and ‘no, ma’am,’ never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised.” Harriet”
― Noel B. Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography

“The great error of controversy is, that it is ever ready to assail persons rather than principles. The slave system as a system, perhaps concentrates more wrong than any other now existing, and yet those who live under and in it may be as we see, enlightened, generous, and amenable to reason. If the system alone is attacked, such minds will be the first to perceive its evils, and to turn against it; but if the system be attacked through individuals, self-love, wounded pride, and a thousand natural feelings, will be at once enlisted for its preservation.”
― Noel B. Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography