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Jean Webster was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.



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✵ 24. July 1876 – 11. June 1916  •  Other names جین وبستر
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Daddy-Long-Legs
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Dear Enemy
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Just Patty
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Dear Enemy
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Just Patty
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Famous Jean Webster Quotes

“Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.”

Jean Webster

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”

Jean Webster

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“She was by nature a sunny soul”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster Quotes

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.”

Jean Webster book Dear Enemy

Source: Dear Enemy

“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

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