Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Eliza Farnham (American Reformer)

Eliza Wood Farnham (1815–64,) born Eliza Woodson Burhans, was an American reformer and writer. As matron of the women’s department of Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, 1844–48, she instituted significant reforms.

Born in Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York, Farnham served as the matron of the women’s ward at Sing Sing Prison (then called Mt. Pleasant) and the matron of the women’s division of the New York State Prison 1844–48. She was influential in changing how female prisoners were rehabilitated through the availability of reading materials and by using music and kindness.

In her later years, Farnham devoted herself to the study of medicine and organized institution to aid destitute women and emigrants in finding homes in the west. She published California, Indoors and Out (1856) and My Early Days (1859.)

Farnham’s most crucial work, Women and Her Era (2 vols., 1864,) is a treatise on the position and rights of women, maintaining that women were not just equal to men but much better. Her novel, The Ideal Attainedk (1865,) was printed posthumously.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Eliza Farnham
Topics: Truth

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Eliza Farnham
Topics: Face, Faces

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with the power to drag the soul to perdition.
Eliza Farnham
Topics: Mankind, Man, Body

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham
Topics: Art, Artists, Arts

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