Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Dorothy Canfield FisherA mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield FisherYou think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
Dorothy Canfield FisherWhat a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
Dorothy Canfield FisherAlmost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.
Dorothy Canfield FisherVermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher