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 Copy Share Image
“I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.” — Fanny Fern Copy Share
It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in… — Fanny Fern Copy Share
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
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… — Fanny Fern Copy Share
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. — Fanny Fern Copy Share
