Fanny Fern Quotes

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• I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

  Fanny Fern

  Time, Done, Down And

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Fall, Errors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

  Fanny Fern

  Girl, Dog, Cat

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.221, Rutgers University Press

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

  Fanny Fern

  Ignorance, Omission, Color

  Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114

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• There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

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  Littles, Little Things, Hinges

  "Ruth Hall and Other Writings".

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• Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

  Fanny Fern

  Giving, Justice, Flattery

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.31

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• Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

  Fanny Fern

  Doctors, Experience, Diploma

  Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.15

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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• The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

  Fanny Fern

  Life, Journey, Chance

  Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.95

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• I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

  Fanny Fern

  Falling In Love, People, Sick

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.143, The Floating Press

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• I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

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  Hate, Desire, Necks

  Fanny Fern (1873). “Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir”, p.497

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• The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

  Fanny Fern

  Old Fashioned, Term, Has Beens

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.316

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• Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

  Fanny Fern

  Children, Too Much, Ruined

  Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.107

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• Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

  Fanny Fern

  Husband, Hands, Law

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Fresh Leaves”, p.257, Litres

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• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• A little oil makes machinery work easy.

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  Oil, Littles, Easy

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.151

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• There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.

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  Writing, Honor, Fool

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Ruth Hall”, p.164, Fanny Fern

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• To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Father, Pioneers

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• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  Fanny Fern

  Bread, Tough, Dependence

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.319, Rutgers University Press

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• Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.

  Fanny Fern

  Country, Be Kind, Serene

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.134, The Floating Press

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• Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

  Fanny Fern

  Winter, Had Enough, Enough

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.284

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• Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

  Fanny Fern

  Gloomy, Dear, Reader

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.169

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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