Kate Douglas Wiggin

“...no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

“It was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

“Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and tell me if it isn't so.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

“To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

“There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

It’s the birthday of Kate Douglas Wiggin (books by this author), born in Philadelphia, (1856), who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) and many other novels. She also started the first free kindergarten on the West Coast, in San Francisco. She spent much of her own life working as a teacher, and she once said, “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.”