Fanny Fern Quotes

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.

Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.

I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.

Life has much of harmony yet in store for you.

Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.