Emmeline B. Wells famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.
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None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.
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I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
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O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
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I believe in women, especially thinking women.
-- Emmeline B. Wells
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Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
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Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.
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Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
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