Phelps

Famous quotes containing the word phelps:

    A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)