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
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.