Fanny Fern Quotes

Fanny Fern Quotes

Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis , was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Fern's popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid columnist in the United States, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column. A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year. Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography Ruth Hall , has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars. Wikipedia

✵ 9. July 1811 – 10. October 1872

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“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”

Fanny Fern

Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

Love , Beauty

“Well, it is humiliation reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.”

Fanny Fern

Source: 1854, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second series, Hungry Husbands. Often quoted as The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Also quoted in Chambers dictionary of Quotations, p. 321

Heart