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.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.