Fanny Fern Quotes

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Fanny Fern, born Sarah Josepha Hale, was a prominent American columnist in the 19th century. Known for her humor and insightful social commentary, she made significant contributions to the status of women in literature and public discourse.

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Famous Fanny Fern Quotes

“Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!”

Giving Turns Advice Doctors Pills

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

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Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.”

Doctors Experience Excellent Diploma

Book:Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things

About the Author

Born: July 9, 1811
Died: October 10, 1872
Known for: Columnist
Quotes: 49

Books & Sources

Folly as It FliesRelated source material

FRESH LEAVESRelated source material

Ginger-SnapsRelated source material

Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and ThingsRelated source material

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TimeRelated source material

Ruth Hall and Other WritingsRelated source material

Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a MemoirRelated source material

Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folioRelated source material

Shadows and SunbeamsRelated source material

Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio: Second SeriesRelated source material

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