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Hart and all those who make Project Gutenberg possible.https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvw64f224725"My fate has been governed by necessity, a hideous necessity." —Mary Shelley, "Mathilda"20 Sep 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvw64f224725https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvuvugk76w22"Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, used by anyone for any purpose, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived." —Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus"19 Sep 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvuvugk76w22https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvtnmfppdv2d"by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"19 Sep 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtnmfppdv2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvsfec74r422"Will you tell that to your crippled children?" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Crux: A Novel"18 Sep 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsfec74r422https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvr53tytfj2d"We may either smother the divine fire of youth or we may feed it." —Jane Addams, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets"18 Sep 2026 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvr53tytfj2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvr52q2igb22"Freedom to seek soul development is paramount to all other demands." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"18 Sep 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvr52q2igb22https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvpusa6sau2r"nothing matters in all God's universe, except love." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Further Chronicles of Avonlea"17 Sep 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpusa6sau2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvomk7yhyn2a"I felt as if I had lost something that I never had." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Kilmeny of the Orchard"17 Sep 2026 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvomk7yhyn2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvom7dmx3a25"It is easier to submit—yes; it is disagreeable to know." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"17 Sep 2026 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvom7dmx3a25https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvom5fg67n2a"Love is God!" —Sarah Grand, "The Beth Book: Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius"17 Sep 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvom5fg67n2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvnduqtjdz2n"The world is nothing; the man is all." —Harriet Martineau, "Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)"16 Sep 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnduqtjdz2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvm3mq6uzn2v"What is the use of a right that one may not put into practice?" —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"16 Sep 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvm3mq6uzn2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvkteho4gj2g"He had done what he could, and God asks no more of any man." —Alice Paul, "Life of St. Vincent de Paul"15 Sep 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkteho4gj2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvktddoc2o22"We are what we allow ourselves to be." —Sarah Grand, "The Beth Book: Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius"15 Sep 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvktddoc2o22https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvjl2qij6m2r"Come, the curtain is down, so I may be myself for a few hours, if actresses ever are themselves." —Louisa May Alcott, "Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power"15 Sep 2026 02:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjl2qij6m2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvicspbqdx2r"Man, in supporting woman, has become her economic environment." —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution"14 Sep 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvicspbqdx2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvh2kcv52l2v"The Hidden Dread" —George Eliot, "Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George Eliot"14 Sep 2026 02:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvh2kcv52l2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvfscasibn2j"Death was an attempt to communicate." —Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"13 Sep 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfscasibn2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvejzzrmnl2q"If others sat still, letting the fox take them, that was one thing. To do nothing for her goslings? Quite another." —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"13 Sep 2026 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvejzzrmnl2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvdbs733ll22"If others let the fox carry them away, that was one thing. But doing nothing to keep her goslings safe? That was quite another." —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"12 Sep 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdbs733ll22https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvbzkb4vjr2r"When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: “Will it benefit men?” When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: “Will it benefit men?”" —Alice Miller, "Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times"12 Sep 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbzkb4vjr2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mvarcahfav2n"Discretion looks to the consequences of actions—honour looks to the action itself, and is an instinct rather than a virtue." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "My Lady Ludlow"11 Sep 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvarcahfav2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv7j2crorg2q"And what is knowledge?" —Virginia Woolf, "Two Stories"11 Sep 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7j2crorg2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv6asffpot2i"We are what we allow ourselves to be." —Sarah Grand, "The Beth Book: Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius"10 Sep 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6asffpot2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv4yjvzfru25"It has been said that the happiest individuals, like nations during their happiest periods, have no history." —Jane Austen, "Memoir of Jane Austen"10 Sep 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4yjvzfru25https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv3qc2qhy72g"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"09 Sep 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3qc2qhy72ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv3qauanz72g"It’s life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering—the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all." —Virginia Woolf, "Night and Day"09 Sep 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3qauanz72ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mv2hxyxuts2d"Two crimes do not make a virtue." —Ida B. 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