Frases de Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child fue una abolicionista, activista de los derechos de la mujer y de los nativos americanos, novelista, periodista y opositora al expansionismo estadounidense.

Sus escritos —manuales domésticos y ficción— tuvieron un considerable público en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. En ocasiones escandalizó a sus lectores al tratar temas como el dominio masculino y la supremacía blanca en algunas de sus historias. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. febrero 1802 – 20. octubre 1880  •  Otros nombres Lydia Child
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Lydia Maria Child: Frases en inglés

“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life.”

Lydia Maria Child

Letters from New York https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dcYDAAAAQAAJ&amp;rdid=book-dcYDAAAAQAAJ&amp;rdot=1 (1841-1843), p. 206, Letter XXVIII, 29 Sep 1842 <br class="br">1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Contexto: The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.

“Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.”

Lydia Maria Child

Chapter VIII http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeslmca5t.html <br class="br">1830s, An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) <br class="br">Contexto: I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it—and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

“I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln.”

Lydia Maria Child

Letter to George W. Julian (8 April 1865), as quoted in The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery http://books.google.com/books?id=4b8m7cv3wTIC&amp;pg=PA335#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false, by Eric Foner, p. 336 <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Contexto: I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Fuente: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37

“Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.”

Lydia Maria Child

Message to woman suffrage supporters (c. 1875)
1870s

“The United States is…a warning rather than an example to the world.”

Lydia Maria Child

To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1857)
1850s

“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”

Lydia Maria Child

Chapter VI http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeslmca3t.html <br class="br">1830s, An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

“Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Fuente: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/12261.html, vol. 1, letter 34

“It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.”

Lydia Maria Child

The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages http://books.google.ca/books?id=mGmQMdHqj9AC&amp;pg=PA451&amp;dq=It+is+impossible+to+exaggerate+the+evil+work+theology++Lydia+Maria+Child&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=At4QUYLKOrOM0QGp34DIBg&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=It%20is%20impossible%20to%20exaggerate%20the%20evil%20work%20theology%20%20Lydia%20Maria%20Child&amp;f=false, 1855, p. 451, vol. 3 <br class="br">1850s

“I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.”

Lydia Maria Child

Letter to Ellis Gray Loring (1843).
1840s

“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Fuente: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/62/12262.html, vol. 1, letter 39

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Fuente: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/58/12260.html, vol. 1, letter 26

“Over the river, and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way,
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow.”

Lydia Maria Child

The New England Boy&#x27;s Song About Thanksgiving Day http://www.potw.org/archive/potw64.html, st. 1, from Flowers for Children (1844-1846). <br class="br">1840s

“I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.”

Lydia Maria Child

&quot;Concerning Women&quot;, Independent, 21 Oct 1869, as quoted in &quot;Extracts from &#x27;Concerning Women&#x27;&quot; in A Lydia Maria Child Reader (1997), edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, p 403 https://books.google.com/books?id=l1lv2eDR-ocC&amp;pg=PA403&amp;lpg=PA403&amp;dq=%22no+woman+could+expect+to+be+regarded+as+a+lady+after+she+had+written+a+book%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=m4wJPHeLvD&amp;sig=tyepgWWYYRTodRbMJwCW5wZOwvs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi4jdDQ4ojSAhWKSiYKHZl_AnUQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&amp;q=%22no%20woman%20could%20expect%20to%20be%20regarded%20as%20a%20lady%20after%20she%20had%20written%20a%20book%22&amp;f=false.