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.
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
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.
The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.
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.
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.