“South Dakota’s new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.” — Caroline Fraser Money Copy Share Image
“His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.” — Caroline Fraser Contentment Copy Share Image
“One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number… — Caroline Fraser Battles Copy Share Image
“Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a… — Caroline Fraser Around the world Copy Share Image
“It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just… — Caroline Fraser Little women Copy Share Image
My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their… — Caroline Fraser Believe Copy Share Image
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness… — Caroline Fraser Admit Copy Share Image
“By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in… — Caroline Fraser 1867 Dakota Copy Share Image
Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain… — Caroline Fraser Always Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused… — Caroline Fraser Catholic Copy Share Image
“The Plains, Willa Cather wrote years later, are “the happiness and the curse of my life.”104” — Caroline Fraser Happiness Copy Share Image
Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs. — Caroline Fraser Anything Copy Share Image
I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history. — Caroline Fraser American Copy Share Image
“She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.” — Caroline Fraser Heart Copy Share Image
“In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own… — Caroline Fraser Books Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to… — Caroline Fraser Back Copy Share Image
Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms. — Caroline Fraser Accept Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was… — Caroline Fraser Science Copy Share Image
Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church… — Caroline Fraser Christian science Copy Share Image
Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose… — Caroline Fraser Books Copy Share Image
Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my… — Caroline Fraser Cats Copy Share Image
“And again, there was little help forthcoming. Minnesota had a new Republican governor, John Sargent Pillsbury, cofounder of the flour-milling enterprise that… — Caroline Fraser Business Copy Share Image
