"Self-expression" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the tenor of Agatha's last letter, of the last self-expression of that effigy upstairs who (you could see) knew everything and was ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... Elizabeth Barrett, appearance; Aurora Leigh; on Keats; on the poet's age; content with his own time; democracy; eyes; habitat; health, humanitarianism, inferiority to his creations, inspiration, love, morals, pain, personality, religion, resentment at patronage, self-consciousness, self-expression, sex, ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... he hesitated a moment, and she watched pityingly the struggle he was making toward an impossible self-expression. The thing he wanted to say, the thing struggling so pathetically in the inarticulateness of his feeling, would not, she knew, ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... the woman who spends her days looking after the details of furnishing a house and keeping it clean, of providing and serving meals, of looking after clothing and caring for children, has a world of self-expression compared with which factory and shop work is infinitely petty and mean. In the social life of friends, neighborhood, school and church she is at least as well placed as the factory worker. If the woman has the preparation required ...
— Woman in Modern Society • Earl Barnes
... burden to that brave soul seemed sacrilege or worse. True enough, he was passing through the new and thrilling experience of making acquaintance with his father. But old Grant Maitland was a hard man to know, and they were too much alike in their reserve and in their poverty of self-expression to make mutual acquaintance anything but a slow and in ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
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