Light Leaving

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or leaving:

“...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage—only for appendages and dead weights to husbands—of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves—is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)