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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 4h
"The only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him." —George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 16h
"The new year had come, and expectation was ended. Reality had begun." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "Sylvia's Lovers — Complete"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"In the sting is the cure. Through pain and misery, vision is born." —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"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)"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Was it, indeed, her absence that had released all the vital energy?" —Alice Miller, "Things"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"It’s only the good that could last so long." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "The Story Girl"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?" —Virginia Woolf, "Jacob's Room"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The poison has a heart of healing." —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Refuse them, that is the only way; but if it is not in your nature to refuse them, what can you do?" —Margaret Oliphant, "Neighbours on the Green"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Freely reproduced, distributed, used, modified, built upon for any purpose, by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Nous ne sommes l'un près de l'autre qu'à condition de rester séparés." —Edith Wharton, "Au temps de l'innocence"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Longevity was far different from immortality." —Mary Shelley, "Tales and Stories: Now First Collected"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The fox was afraid of old Fido, but didn't he know that his little house was empty?" —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Industrialism versus militarism comes to be nurture versus conquest." —Jane Addams, "Newer ideals of peace"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within." —George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy." —Louisa May Alcott, "Eight Cousins"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." —Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever." —George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It was the difference between being born and being made." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anne of the Island"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It is better to grieve than not to grieve. Grief at least tells me that I was not always what I am now." —Mary Shelley, "The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 2 (of 2)"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The unknown always engrosses the greater part of the field of vision, and the awe of infinity sanctifies both the study and the dream." —Harriet Martineau, "Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet Martineau"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"a library of electronic works that could be freely shared with anyone." —George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Though I seem to die—though to-morrow you will take out this body and burn it—the chain of existence has not run out to its limit. I remain." —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Nothing is proved, nothing is known." —Virginia Woolf, "Monday or Tuesday"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I can be most docile as long as I forget my knowledge of life; but the moment I remember, I become a raging fury." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"De economische staat van de vrouw houdt verband met de geslachts-verhouding." —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "De economische toestand der vrouw: Een studie over de economische verhouding tusschen mannen en vrouwen als een factor in de sociale evolutie"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If they're not afraid of death, what are they afraid of?" —Alice Miller, "Are Parents People?"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We risk our lives when men are born." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"On parempi omistaa se ja asua ullakkokamarissa kuin hallita palatsissa ja olla sitä vailla." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anna ystävämme"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The labour of slaves is therefore less valuable than that of brutes." —Harriet Martineau, "Illustrations of political economy, Volume 2 (of 9)"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Suffering born for a cause begets sympathy with that cause and coercion arouses sympathy with the coerced." —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"A 'nigger' had killed a white man, and that was enough." —Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in Georgia"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The injury of one is the concern of all." —Jane Addams, "Democracy and Social Ethics"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"My voices were of God! They have not deceived me!" —Margaret Oliphant, "Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"My fate has been governed by necessity, a hideous necessity." —Mary Shelley, "Mathilda"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"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"
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Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"
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