“When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.” MenWorldMayDeserveWickedCalamityWicked Man Book:Jan Vedder's Wife Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.” MenWorldLongHas BeensDoneFightingSidesJusticeForgetSonBrotherBearsOne DayHusbandInjusticeSexismSensibleLong LifeSemblanceSixth Sense Author:Amelia Barr
“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.” WorldCommonThis WorldPoetLoversStringsMaking LoveAlaska Book:The Belle of Bowling Green Source: The Belle of Bowling Green
“This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.” WorldGivingRunningFormPayThis WorldEmptyLuckSellsFortuneFavorsInterfereReins Author:Amelia Barr