Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
book good happier knowledge
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier
book reading shining
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
children book pride
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
beautiful spring book
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?
happiness book long
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
hate truth
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
change few knows months next none opportunity tenor unexpected waiting
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
accept bear easier life necessary
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
accept bear easier life necessary
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
solitude
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
girl trouble
Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.
pain regret loss
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made
pregnancy fruit melons
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
husband trouble
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.