Little women Quote by Caroline Fraser

I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a…

— Caroline Fraser

My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are…

— Caroline Fraser

“South Dakota’s new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.”

— Caroline Fraser

“His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.”

— Caroline Fraser

“By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little…

— Caroline Fraser

“Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation…

— Caroline Fraser

Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of…

— Caroline Fraser

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— Caroline Fraser

Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal…

— Caroline Fraser

“One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.”

— Caroline Fraser

Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going…

— Caroline Fraser

Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of…

— Caroline Fraser