--- title: "3 Catherine Friend Quotes" description: "Catherine Friend is an American writer of adult nonfiction, fiction, and children's books. Her works have won her four Goldie Awards from the Golden Cro..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/catherine-friend-84012_feeling-alive_if-i-start-doing-more-things-with-my-han_1607136.jpg" --- # Catherine Friend **3** quotes in **11** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Catherine Friend is an American writer of adult nonfiction, fiction, and children's books. Her works have won her four Goldie Awards from the Golden Crown Literary Society, the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, and Keystone to Reading Book Award for Primary. She was also a finalist for th ## Quotes by Catherine Friend > [“If I start doing more things with my hands, whether that's woodworking or gardening or knitting or baking cookies, I might fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-friend/if-i-start-doing-more-things-with-my-hands-whether-that-s-woodworking/) Catherine Friend [Baking cookies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baking-cookies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/catherine-friend-84012_feeling-alive_if-i-start-doing-more-things-with-my-han_1607136.jpg) > [“If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-friend/if-we-are-going-to-start-calling-industrial-corn-sustainable-then-we/) Catherine Friend [Climate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/catherine-friend-84012_food_if-we-are-going-to-start-calling-industr_1654023.jpg) > [“Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-friend/would-it-really-be-so-bad-if-you-slowed-your-life-down-even-a-teensy/) Catherine Friend [Cooking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cooking/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08a/catherine-friend-84012_cooking_would-it-really-be-so-bad-if-you-slowed_1682819.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-friend/#itemlist", "name": "Catherine Friend Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If I start doing more things with my hands, whether that's woodworking or gardening or knitting or baking cookies, I might fall into the condition made famous by the psychologist with the impossible name: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 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