The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

- Fanny Fern

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

- Fanny Fern

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.

- Fanny Fern

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

- Fanny Fern

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

- Fanny Fern

Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses w…

- Fanny Fern

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

- Fanny Fern

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

- Fanny Fern

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

- Fanny Fern