Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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"Dorothy Canfield Fisher" was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American literature/American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori education/Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.

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Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our bu.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.