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
What is life, but one long risk?
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.
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.
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.