Frances Hodgson Burnett

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

All women are princesses, it is our right.

If you look the right way you can see that the whole world is a garden.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.