Phelps

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    Truth, like climate, is common property ...
    —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)

    ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one’s notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one’s dearest readers.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)