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/3mtxab4khbo2h"Time and poverty and pain have taught us the value of patience, justice, courage, and mercy." —Louisa May Alcott, "Lulu's Library, Volume 2 (of 3)"26 Aug 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxab4khbo2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtxa7zhnto2w"to impoverish the many is the most certain method of ultimately impoverishing the few; and the reverse." —Harriet Martineau, "Illustrations of political economy, Volume 7 (of 9)"26 Aug 2026 01:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxa7zhnto2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtvxxc6hde2m"What is there in the world more hard than to see ourselves as we appear to those on the other side?" —Margaret Oliphant, "The Primrose Path: A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of Fife"25 Aug 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvxxc6hde2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtupoxxpq22w"A spiritual growth, a conscious dwelling in company with the ideal, which has tended to strip the littleness from life and to give to it the character of an heroic mission." —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"25 Aug 2026 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtupoxxpq22whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtthgjxym32h"For one doesn't live for oneself." —Virginia Woolf, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street"24 Aug 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtthgjxym32hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtthfr6n562m"To impoverish the many is the most certain method of ultimately impoverishing the few; and the reverse." —Harriet Martineau, "Illustrations of political economy, Volume 7 (of 9)"24 Aug 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtthfr6n562mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mts74xb5iz2x"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done." —Virginia Woolf, "Jacob's Room"24 Aug 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mts74xb5iz2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtqwusrzts25"Give us light, or kill us! Only the awful silence answers, 'Neither light nor death, poor soul; only a blind going forward to an unknown goal!'" —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"23 Aug 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqwusrzts25https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtpom2yvt52i"Extend mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His mercy from us?" —Alice Paul, "Life of St. Vincent de Paul"23 Aug 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpom2yvt52ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtogdrxuxb2j"It really doesn't matter about my being pretty any more, for every one likes me now!" —Charlotte Bronte, "How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty"22 Aug 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtogdrxuxb2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtn62jbmhs2v"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"22 Aug 2026 01:52 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtn62jbmhs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtlsqcrsrb2o"I have no sense of guilt. I feel I have done my duty. I look upon myself as a prisoner of war." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"21 Aug 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlsqcrsrb2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtkkhufbru2v"It seems to me that books do little; character much; and character is not formed from books." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "Round the Sofa"21 Aug 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkkhufbru2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtjc7ge2432e"I cannot understand: I love." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Moorland Cottage"20 Aug 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjc7ge2432ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mthwei4fqy2i"at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever." —George Eliot, "Silas Marner"19 Aug 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthwei4fqy2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtgo4jifoc2t"Risk eternity for a moment?" —Alice Paul, "Dr. Paull's Theory: A Romance"19 Aug 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgo4jifoc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtfftch37o2m"Man has no natural property in man." —Harriet Martineau, "Illustrations of political economy, Volume 2 (of 9)"18 Aug 2026 23:50 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfftch37o2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mte5kyvuwu2h"Notoriety is not real glory." —Louisa May Alcott, "Jo's Boys"18 Aug 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte5kyvuwu2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtcvcv2quo2i"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"17 Aug 2026 23:49 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcvcv2quo2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtbn2kiwsr2n"For her to do nothing to keep her little goslings safe, that was quite another." —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"17 Aug 2026 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbn2kiwsr2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtbmzjbs7d2h"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"17 Aug 2026 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbmzjbs7d2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mtaeqvs6en2i"kind deeds often come back to the givers in fairer shapes than they go" —Louisa May Alcott, "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc."16 Aug 2026 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtaeqvs6en2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt74itbxih2v"God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"16 Aug 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt74itbxih2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt5uawpikk2a"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience." —Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"15 Aug 2026 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5uawpikk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt4lyox2yf2n"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"15 Aug 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4lyox2yf2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt3dqr6fg72h"It really doesn't matter about my being pretty any more, for every one likes me now!" —Charlotte Bronte, "How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty"14 Aug 2026 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3dqr6fg72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt23ix7fjg2j"If you aspire to perfection, you must learn to die to self." —Alice Paul, "Life of St. Vincent de Paul"14 Aug 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt23ix7fjg2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3mt23imevp32v"It is easier to submit—yes; it is disagreeable to know." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"14 Aug 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt23imevp32vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3msyt7gykt524"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"13 Aug 2026 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyt7gykt524https://bsky.app/profile/bookquotedaily.bsky.social/post/3msxkx5sf232i"If some say 'Innocence is the greatest charm of young girls,' the answer is, 'What good does it do them?'" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Crux: A Novel"13 Aug 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:o7oxozg5uhagfjbi2uaqaoxv/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxkx5sf232i