Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Born: August 12, 1806
Died: November 16, 1893 (aged 87)
Bio: Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women’s rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s.
Known for:
- The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
- Liberating the Home






