Listen, World! Quotes

“The only person who fails in life, she thought, is the person who doesn’t dare live it.15”
― Julia Scheeres, Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

“she has forgotten the functions of humanity—laughing, dreaming, risking, adventuring, making experiments. She has put scalloped paper on all the shelves in the house, but she has left her own spirit as dusty and bare as the woodshed.24”
― Julia Scheeres, Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman