Mary A. Ward Quotes

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope... view

By: Mary A. Ward

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress... view

By: Mary A. Ward

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again... view

By: Mary A. Ward

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction... view

By: Mary A. Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership... view

By: Mary A. Ward

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly... view

By: Mary A. Ward

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died... view

By: Mary A. Ward

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us... view

By: Mary A. Ward

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!.. view

By: Mary A. Ward

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879... view

By: Mary A. Ward

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town... view

By: Mary A. Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures... view

By: Mary A. Ward

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century... view

By: Mary A. Ward

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep... view

By: Mary A. Ward

But no man has a monopoly of conscience... view

By: Mary A. Ward

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term... view

By: Mary A. Ward

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted... view

By: Mary A. Ward

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one... view

By: Mary A. Ward

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it... view

By: Mary A. Ward

I loved nearly all my teachers.. view

By: Mary A. Ward

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many... view

By: Mary A. Ward