Mary Augusta Ward Quotes & Sayings

“But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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.”

“But no man has a monopoly of conscience.”

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

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

“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.”