Famous Quotes | She atoned for want of devotion...

She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation. - Henry Brooks Adams
Attribution: Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. Democracy, p. 90, Library of America (1983).

Categories: Historian, Madeleine Lee, Women

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