Quotes by Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

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A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest an — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuo — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of bo — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual af — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopoli — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote t — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a d — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one i — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all cre — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist