Josephine Preston Peabody

Overview

Josephine Preston Peabody born Brooklyn, NY May 30, 1874 (d. 1922). Feminist, suffragist, pacifist, poet and playwright.

Quotations

I gave the breath to men,
For men to slay again;
Lording it over anguish, all to give
My life, that men might live,
For this.
You will be laughing now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
Yes, so we called you then,
You, far more wise
Than to give life to men.

(“Harvest Moon”)

Warring together, great and small:—
. . . Yes, warring all!—
The very bread they struggled for, They spill and waste in war—
. . . War!

(“The Wolf of Gubbio”, end of Act II; photo Wikipedia)