Eleanor Porter Quotations

I love different folks.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Just breathing isn't living!

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!