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Harriet Martineau

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.


— Harriet Martineau


#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.


— Harriet Martineau


#great #great ideas #ideas #occupied #performs

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.


— Harriet Martineau


#duties #great #great ideas #ideas #performs

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.


— Harriet Martineau


#glance #love #marry #men #men and women

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.


— Harriet Martineau


#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.


— Harriet Martineau


#chambers #class #europe #had #having

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.


— Harriet Martineau


#author #i #i am #see #seeing

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.


— Harriet Martineau


#condition #half #none #other #over

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.


— Harriet Martineau


#any #country #course #earth #expected

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.


— Harriet Martineau


#essential #human #human nature #knowledge #nature






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Did you know about Harriet Martineau?

Martineau began losing her sense of taste and smell becoming increasingly deaf at a young age and having to use an ear trumpet. London and the United States
Writing was considerably gendered in the Victorian era. She met Florence Nightingale and Charlotte Brontë later on in her literary career.

Martineau has said of her approach: "when one studies a society one must focus on all its aspects including key political religious and social institutions". She earned enough to be supported entirely by her writing a challenging feat for a woman in the Victorian era. " While Harriet Martineau was commonly described as having a masculine intellect Martineau introduced feminist sociological perspectives in her writing on otherwise overlooked issues such as marriage children domestic and religious life and race relations.

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