Edith Thomas > Quotes

“A race lacking respect for women would never advance socially or politically.”
― Edith Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans"

“Farmer Landis, and raisin or "Rosina" pie,”
― Edith Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans"

“Aunt Sarah's still smooth, unwrinkled, youthful looking face, made more charming by being framed in waves of silvery gray hair, on which the "Hand of Time," in passing, had sprinkled some of the dust from the road of life.”
― Edith Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans"

“The truly educated man is the man who has learned the duty and responsibility of doing something useful, something helpful, something to make this old world of ours better and a happier place in which to live.”
― Edith Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans"

“the noblest work a woman can do is training and rearing her children.”
― Edith Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visitamong the "Pennsylvania Germans"