“ A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all th… Karen Swallow Prior
“ I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More Karen Swallow Prior
“ The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal pr… Karen Swallow Prior
“ Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and approp… Karen Swallow Prior
“ It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I… Karen Swallow Prior
“ Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that relig… Karen Swallow Prior
“ Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life. Karen Swallow Prior
“ 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 can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being who… Karen Swallow Prior
“ The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with “eloquence.” A few centuries la… Karen Swallow Prior
“ What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul. Karen Swallow Prior
“ …mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections. Karen Swallow Prior
“ …evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-s… Karen Swallow Prior
“ Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the bri… Karen Swallow Prior
“ …the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. T… Karen Swallow Prior
“ From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me. Karen Swallow Prior
“ Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings. Karen Swallow Prior
“ I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread. Karen Swallow Prior
