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When you share your moral common sense with people in your locality, that helps you to form a community. But those gut reactions differ between groups, making it harder to get along with other groups.

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Laura E. Richards

You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

Death, Door, Doors, Julius, Nails, Poor
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We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

Cake, Joy, Small, Sorrow, Sorrows

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Dinner, Eat, Has Beens, Life, Poetry, Read

To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?

Children, Country, Fifties, Fought, Plying, War

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Book, Books, Children, Let, Reading, Stretch

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Believe, Children, Needs, Thing, Understand
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