I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man. Fanny Kemble More Quotes by Fanny Kemble More Quotes From Fanny Kemble I want to do everything in the world that can be done. Fanny Kemble donewantworld The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience. Fanny Kemble husbandheartchildren I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. Fanny Kemble knowingfearlying [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men. Fanny Kemble husbandwishmen [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will. Fanny Kemble husbandactiongiving A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them. Fanny Kemble housegivingpeople When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence. Fanny Kemble oughtexistencemarriage ...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women. Fanny Kemble white-manracemen A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Fanny Kemble failurewinninglife Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty. Fanny Kemble modestyfemalediamond Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. Fanny Kemble breedingsimplicityelements ... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools. Fanny Kemble fooldeterminedcharacter What shall I do with all the days and hours Fanny Kemble letting-gomissing-youi-miss-you An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work. Fanny Kemble dreammenmemories Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing. Fanny Kemble blessedbelievelying [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war. Fanny Kemble rootsspringwar American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity. Fanny Kemble stupidityanimalmen Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them. Fanny Kemble cease The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day. Fanny Kemble horsewould-bedeath cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense. Fanny Kemble lighteducationbeautiful
