Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
Citations
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle was a Scottish writer. She did not publish any work in her lifetime, but she was widely seen as an extraordinary letter writer. Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers," and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career."