Finding Dorothy Quotes

“Oh, Kansas isn’t the state of Kansas,” Maud said. “Kansas is just the place you’re stuck in, wherever that might be.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Magic isn't things materializing out of nowhere, Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“The fight for all women has got to begin with the women closest to you.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“He had no heart. And, you know, a man who gives up his heart is little better than a tin can...and all the Baum's Castorine in the world couldn't make him better. That's why he was so determined to find one. Sometimes, when the tin woodman leaves home, when he goes on the road, leaving his family to sell his chopped wood, he feels so hollow he bangs on his chest, just to hear the echo inside. That's what it's like to be a man of tin. It's very lonely.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“If Maud’s suffragist mother, Matilda, had taught her anything, it was that if you wanted something, you needed to ask for it—or demand it, if necessary.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Just because you can see a rainbow doesn’t mean you know how to get to the other side.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“With all of these oohs and ahs, I think we must christen it the Land of Aahs.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“It wasn't enough to push open the doors. You had to change minds. How could girls truly make their mark if their role models were houseplants, if their fashions scarcely allowed them to breathe? If any expression of opinion on any subject was considered by young men to be a threat? And even more so, how could they escape the basic fact that no matter how horrid the boys were, the young women still wanted to please them - because what choice had they, really? Where could they go besides back to their own homes, where they would rest under the heavy thumbs of their own mothers, or into the home of a man - with the hopes that this man would be indulgent, like Papa, and not oppressive or cruel, like so many others?”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“You always need to fix your own problems. Nobody else is going to fix them for you.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Is there a rule against twirling…?” Maud peered at her friend. “Are you a cranky old Methodist?”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“there were two kinds of people in the world: fans of Oz—those who remembered their childhoods—and those who pretended that they had never even heard of Oz, who believed that adults should put away childish things.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“death was hard, and sometimes no words could truly provide consolation.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Too much control can stunt a girl, sap her of courage, and render her weak.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“In truth, though she longed to fit in, she felt more compelled to be true to herself. If she were to have any hope at love, she’d have to find a man who could love her as she was, even though there seemed little likelihood that such a man existed.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“She smiled, tapped on her book, and said, “I’m just going to read for a few more minutes.” Frank, however, seemed to have been storing up speeches all day, and, undeterred, he prattled nonstop as he took off his hat and scarf.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“You always need to fix your own problems. Nobody else is going to fix them for you.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Children are a blessing, but God has given us a brain, and we are not prevented from using it to help us organize our lives.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“By the time you reach my age, you’ve lost all kinds of important people, and talking to those who are gone comes to seem quite in the ordinary course of things.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“And that is the magic of Oz - the magic is that it isn't magic at all”
― elizabeth letts, Finding Dorothy

“was there anyone, big or small, who didn’t know Dorothy and the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion?”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“As Mother had assured her many times before, every man, woman, and child, Negro, believer, unbeliever, and even the critters of the field deserved an equal shot at happiness.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Seventy-seven years old and Maud sometimes still felt as if her mother were perched just behind the wings, whispering stage instructions.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“She who hesitates is lost.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Their worlds were full of mystical connections and wild coincidences-beautiful twists of fate that unfolded to give one's life a shape as graceful and parabolic as a perfectly plotted book.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“Was it possible? Was there really somewhere else—somewhere at the far end of the rainbow that was better than this place? She certainly hoped so.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900. The turn of the century.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“You see what I’m up against,” Mayer said. “Everyone has an opinion.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“if you wanted something, you needed to ask for it—or demand it, if necessary.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“is going to fix them for you.” CHAPTER 22 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1891 MAUD GULPED REPEATEDLY AND TOOK deep breaths through her nose.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

“There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home, or Heaven. That word is Liberty. —Matilda Joslyn Gage”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy