Posting a quote a day thanks to Project Gutenberg's commitment to the creation and distribution of eBooks. With gratitude to Michael S. Hart and all those who make Project Gutenberg possible.https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3myj6ywd6bu2k"I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"23 Oct 2026 03:04 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3myj6ywd6bu2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3myhwqr5qqc25"Risk eternity for a moment? No!" —Alice Paul, "Dr. Paull's Theory: A Romance"22 Oct 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhwqr5qqc25https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mygoiskbw22h"Governments care more for property than human life; through property we strike the enemy." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"22 Oct 2026 03:04 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mygoiskbw22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3myfgavmzjm2v"This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever." —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"21 Oct 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfgavmzjm2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mye5ys55te2d"She had always heard that the fox was afraid of old Fido, but didn't he know that Fido was far away? Didn't he know that his little house was empty?" —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"21 Oct 2026 03:03 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mye5ys55te2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mycvqtamiq2p"There are many nice things that seem to be wrong only because they are so nice." —Susan Anthony, "The Courtship of Susan Bell"20 Oct 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mycvqtamiq2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mybniuohn52n"A philosophy grounded on the solidarity of the human race will not waver when represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy." —Jane Addams, "Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes"20 Oct 2026 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mybniuohn52nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3myafaq4ee72g"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers." —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"19 Oct 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3myafaq4ee72ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3my74yqow7f2w"It is not the sin I am considering. It is the consequences!" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Crux: A Novel"19 Oct 2026 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my74yqow7f2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3my5uqm4ktt2g"I had therefore nothing in the world to do, but to fancy myself in love." —Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility"18 Oct 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5uqm4ktt2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3my4mi5ujnl2y"A dream—another dream; a beginning—an ending; a beginning again—an ending again;" —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"18 Oct 2026 03:01 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my4mi5ujnl2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3my3e7yzitl2w"There is always light behind the clouds." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"17 Oct 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3e7yzitl2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3my23xthslr2p"So hard to live abreast of what you think!" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "In this our world"17 Oct 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3my23xthslr2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxytpqpm6h2j"There is always light behind the clouds." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy"16 Oct 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxytpqpm6h2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxxlhkyrpb2v"We should count time by heart-throbs." —Charlotte Despard, "Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow: A Novel"16 Oct 2026 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxxlhkyrpb2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxwd7kemkc2v"happiness was no more than a reprieve" —Edith Wharton, "Sanctuary"15 Oct 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwd7kemkc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxv2xiurwj26"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." —Virginia Woolf, "Monday or Tuesday"15 Oct 2026 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxv2xiurwj26https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxtspjwe5526"Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man." —Susan Anthony, "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years"14 Oct 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtspjwe5526https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxskhgarnc2p"There is something that governments care far more for than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"14 Oct 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxskhgarnc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxrc7d25zx27"The canon law, the Scriptures, the creeds and codes and church discipline of the leading religions bear the impress of fallible man." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"13 Oct 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrc7d25zx27https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxpzxbealn2a"What faults you saw in me, Pray strive to shun; And look at home; there’s Something to be done." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "Round the Sofa"13 Oct 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxpzxbealn2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxorow5v7o26"This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever." —George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"12 Oct 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxorow5v7o26https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxnjh2bqzi2q"White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women." —Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"12 Oct 2026 02:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxnjh2bqzi2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxmb74v5le2j"My life is for itself, and not for a spectacle." —Louisa May Alcott, "Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins""11 Oct 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxmb74v5le2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxkywx4yj42w"The only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him." —George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"11 Oct 2026 02:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxkywx4yj42whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxjqoufit42n"The new year had come, and expectation was ended. Reality had begun." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "Sylvia's Lovers — Complete"10 Oct 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjqoufit42nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxiigwdbsl2a"In the sting is the cure. Through pain and misery, vision is born." —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"10 Oct 2026 02:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxiigwdbsl2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxha6xdpcc2j"It is unquestioned and unquestionable that if women were not weak, men could not be wicked." —Harriet Martineau, "Society in America, Volume 2 (of 2)"09 Oct 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxha6xdpcc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxfxwtpxpc27"Was it, indeed, her absence that had released all the vital energy?" —Alice Miller, "Things"09 Oct 2026 02:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfxwtpxpc27https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mxepout7mi2h"It’s only the good that could last so long." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "The Story Girl"08 Oct 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxepout7mi2h