. Her novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery
; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South
. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.