Elizabeth Missing Sewell famous quotes

... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Heart #Looks #Injustice

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Girl #Home #Exercise

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Girl #Men #Consciousness

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Monsters #Creation #Feminine

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Girl #Knowledge #Boys

The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Girl #Children #School

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Girl #Men #Competition

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#Strength #Girl #Boys

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.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.