Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life Of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist Quotes
Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More