Quotes from Fanny Fern

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

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

To her, the name of father was another name for love.