We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Biography
Larcom was born in Beverly Massachusetts in 1824 the ninth of ten children and died in Boston in 1893. A local literary magazine entitled The Larcom Review is named for her as is the library at the Beverly High School. Larcom penned one of the best accounts of New England childhood of her time A New England Girlhood commonly used as a reference in studying early American childhood.

Lucy Larcom (March 5 1824 – April 17 1893) was an American poet.