I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
If you want to study writing, read Dickens
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied,. . . the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.
Women are the twin halves of men.
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.