Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisherwas an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 February 1879
CountryUnited States of America
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.
there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.