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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American author, editor, and social activist known for his advocacy of women's rights, abolitionism, and socialism. His works spanned poetry, novels, essays, and criticism, with his most famous work being the autobiographical novel 'My Life and Times'. Higginson's writing style was influenced by both Romanticism and Realism.

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“The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.”

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Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

“Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.”

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Book:Oldport Days

Source: Oldport Days

“What instruction the baby brings to the mother!”

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Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

About the Author

Born: December 22, 1823
Died: May 9, 1911
Known for: Author
Quotes: 38

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