Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor H. Porter (American Novelist)

Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920,) fully Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter, née Hodgman, was an American novelist and short-story writer. She is most known for the children’s novels Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916.)

Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Porter studied music at the New England Conservatory. Her first novels included Cross Currents (1907) and Miss Billy (1911.) In 1913, she published Pollyanna, the tale of a girl who lives with her strict aunt after her parents’ death and looks for the good in even the most dreadful hardships. It was an immediate success and has ever since preserved its popularity as a play, a movie, and a daily calendar of reasons to be hopeful. The term “Pollyanna” entered the lexicon, implying an excessively or blindly optimistic person and one who is cheerful to a fault.

Porter published the best-selling sequel Pollyanna Grows Up (1915.) She also produced two volumes of short stories, The Tangled Threads and Across the Years, which appeared posthumously in 1924.

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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened… Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut… Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out!… People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor H. Porter
Topics: Encouragement

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