In honor of the holiday season, here are some quotes from the writings of notable women.
In these selections you'll find everything from a vision of a golden-haired, white garbed Virgin Mary, to a humorous lament from a 20th century homemaker, to a 19th century Christmas without presents, to a woman historian's story of the Puritan approach to Christmas (work, work, work!).
- Louisa May Alcott - from Little Women
- Louisa May Alcott - hymn
- Erma Bombeck - on not being a child
- Erma Bombeck - on detrimming the tree
- Saint Bridget of Sweden
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Taylor Caldwell
- Angela Carter
- Willa Cather
- Mary Ellen Chase
- Eliza Cook
- Marcelene Cox
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - a version of "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen"
- Grace Noll Crowell
- Margaret Deland
- Emily Dickinson
- Phyllis Diller
- Alice Morse Earle
- Sophia Lyon Fahs
- Theodosia Garrison
- Ada V. Hendricks
- Lenore Hershey
- Marjorie Holmes
- Helen Keller
- Eva Logue
- Phyllis Diller
- Faye Moskowitz
- Helen Steiner Rice
- Christina Rossetti: Love Came Down at Christmas
- Christina Rossetti: Christmas Eve
- Christina Rossetti: In the Bleak Mid-winter
- Augusta E. Rundel
- Ruth Stout
- Sara Teasdale
- Shirley Temple
- Evelyn Underhill
- Katharine Whitehorn
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
