Marcella
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“It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.”
Source: Marcella
“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.”
“my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!”
“There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.”
“To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.”
“Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.”
“Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?”
“praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.”
“There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.”
“... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.”
“Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.”
“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”
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“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.”
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Source: Marcella
“I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.”
“Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.”
“It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.”
“For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.”