A biography for Helen Hunt Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.”
“Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.”
“Love has a tide!”
“If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.”
“Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.”
“Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?”
“On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.”
“If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.”