Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

“Aunt Harriet was very small and thin and old, Grace was very small and thin and middle-aged, Aunt Frances (For Elizabeth Ann called her ‘Aunt,’ although she was really, of course, a first-cousin-once-removed) was small and thin and if the light wasn’t too strong might be called young, and Elizabeth Ann was very small and thin and little.”

“There was certainly neither coldness nor hardness in the way Aunt Harriet and Aunt Frances treated Elizabeth Ann. They had really given themselves up to the new responsibility, especially Aunt Frances, who was very conscientious about everything.”

“And she joined a Mothers’ Club which met once a week. And she took a correspondence course in mothercraft from a school en Chicago which teaches that business by mail.”

“As soon as the baby came here to live, Aunt Frances stopped reading novels and magazines, and re-read one book after another which told her how to bring up children.”

“At a quarter of nine every week-day morning Aunt Frances dropped whatever else she was doing, took Elizabeth Ann’s little, thin, white hand protectingly in hers, and led her through the busy streets to the big brick school building where the little girl had always gone to school.”

“When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized State in the middle of this country.”

“Heard how Aunt Harriet kept Grace (in spite of the fact that she was a very depressing person) on account of her asthma; and when Elizabeth Ann’s father and mother both died when she was a baby.”

“When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized State in the middle of this country.”

“Aunt Frances was afraid of a great many things herself, and she knew how to sympathize with timidity. She was always quick to reassure the little girl with all her might and main whenever there was anything to fear.”

“When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized State in the middle of this country. ”

“Elizabeth Ann’s Great-aunt Harriet was a widow who has not very rich or very poor, and she had one daughter, Frances, who gave piano lessons to little girls.”

“There was certainly neither coldness nor hardness in the way Aunt Harriet and Aunt Frances treated Elizabeth Ann. They had really given themselves up to the new responsibility, especially Aunt Frances, who was very conscientious about everything.”