I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. Jean Webster More Quotes by Jean Webster More Quotes From Jean Webster One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes. Jean Webster husband plato baby it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! Jean Webster humor two believe I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen. Jean Webster orange wall fall This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key. Jean Webster chaps keys heart I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my! Jean Webster blue class beautiful Getting an education is an awfully wearing process! Jean Webster process It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. Jean Webster long-legs writing book Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails. Jean Webster mother hair father I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott Jean Webster morning beautiful children She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation. Jean Webster communication sarcastic ideas Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD? Jean Webster daddy important long And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up. Jean Webster growing-up unhappy children It isn't the great pleasures that count the most it's making a great deal out of the little ones. Jean Webster We woke up today to a new Ireland. The real Irish Republic that I have dreamed of my whole life. Jean Webster top-news
