Marmee Quotes

“I have been wrong to hide my temper so completely. All this time I have been inadvertently teaching my girls that goodness is the absence of faults. An unattainable goal that can only lead to a lifetime of discouragement. Effortless virtue is a fairy tale, so far as I can tell. The honor is in the struggle.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee: A Novel

“Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“have we any idea of how to heal the wounds that do not bleed? I fear we do not.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“Of all the many forms of starvation, the hunger for respect is hardest to cure.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“Words, aimed properly, are often the sharpest of weapons.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“That reprehensible ‘law’ is a flagrant violation of the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures guaranteed to all citizens by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and a stain on the conscience of every God-fearing man and woman,” I shot back.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“I read of the losses of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, 3000 men.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee: A Novel

“There are still so few places in this world for a woman's voice to be heard.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee: A Novel

“Waking up every day and remembering Papa's gone to the front is like biting into a bonbon with nothing in the center.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee