Quotes by : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing....

You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and....

As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but....

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.....

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide....

Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet....

I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just....

Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort....

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege....

Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then....