Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Harriet Hanson Robinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Harriet Hanson Robinson.

Last updated on November 19, 2024.

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill and was involved in a turnout, became a poet and author, and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

American - Poet | February 8, 1825 - December 22, 1911

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By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

Harriet Hanson Robinson

The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

Harriet Hanson Robinson