Mary Abigail Dodge
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Mary Abigail Dodge (March 31, 1833 – August 17, 1896) was an American writer and essayist, under pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Her writing is noted for its wit and promotion of equality of education and occupation for women.
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- Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
- Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.
- Country Living and Country Thinking, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The total depravity of inanimate things.
- Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).