Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864
Birthday: July 4
Death: May 19
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.
source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “The Scarlet Letter (Annotated And Illustrated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag
topic: Heart, Character, Fate, Semblance
