Quotes by : Karen Swallow Prior

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the....

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct....

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with....

…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our....

A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps....

Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing....

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped....

The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness....

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent,....

…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared....