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Margaret Culkin Banning

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Margaret Culkin Banning was an American author renowned for her contributions to children's literature. Born on March 18, 1891, and passing away on January 4, 1982, Banning's writing focused on themes of nature and the environment. She is celebrated for her enduring impact on the field of children's literature.

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“I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?”

Looks Littles Persons Form Values Girl Decision Opinion Angry Average Chastity Average Person

Book:Letters to Susan

Source: Letters to Susan

“Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.”

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”

Trying Persons Sometimes Fun Easy Preserves Expenses

Book:Letters to Susan

Source: Letters to Susan

“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”

Trying Years Mind Doe Ends Lasts Hours Theory Future Sells Tired Dollars Last Year Furniture Barren End Of Life Shabby

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.”

Should May Facts Pain Past Causes Pay Regret Sorrow Conscience Vain Fingerprints

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.”

Love Dream Regret Fingerprints

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Poor Don't Believe Excuse Pious Fatalism

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard”

Children Funny Cleaning Raising Children Shovels Cleaning Up Blizzard Mother Child I Love My Kids I Love My Children

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?”

Want Behavior Caught Perfume

Book:Letters to Susan

Source: Letters to Susan

“Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.”

Facts Dream Fiction Accurate Guesswork

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

About the Author

Born: March 18, 1891
Died: January 4, 1982
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Quotes: 11

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