Mary Abigail Dodge Quotes
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.
