Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There’s no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mom isn’t an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars … and know which they are? — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Taking somebody’s sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You’re only the poorer. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I’ve always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn’t narrow-minded; and — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The richness and endless variety of human relationships … that’s what authors, even — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I’m as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can’t help being risky. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher