Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

Dorothy Canfield Fisher — American Author born on February 17, 1879, died on November 09, 1958

Dorothy Canfield Fisher was 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 Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951... (wikipedia)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

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.

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!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

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