The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.
Lucy LarcomThe New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.
Lucy LarcomIt is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.
Lucy LarcomRich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
Lucy LarcomA drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Lucy Larcom