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…

- Laura E. Richards

I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you…

- Laura E. Richards

read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words…

- 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 …

- Laura E. Richards

And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if…

- Laura E. Richards

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,…

- Laura E. Richards

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

- Laura E. Richards

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite…

- Laura E. Richards

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

- Laura E. Richards