"Talk without effort is nothing."

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Source : Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.58, Indiana University Press

Maria W. Stewart

“I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.”
“One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.”
“My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'”
“My parents have always been very respectful of me so Iâ€™ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so thatâ€™s why I donâ€™t misbehave.”
“It was not surprising ....that [my father] should seldom have long seasons of agonizing prayer such as some have experienced, for His closeness to God was not limited to special seasons, but was a continuous and uninterrupted service.”
“I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.”
“Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.”
“Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.”

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