Candace Wheeler Quotes

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Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

Candace Wheeler

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

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One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God...

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And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

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Perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

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Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

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Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

Candace Wheeler

Candace Wheeler

Candace Wheeler

Born: 1827

Died: 1923 (aged 96)

Bio: Candace Wheeler, often credited as the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers.

Known for:

Principles of home decoration (1903)
Yesterdays in a busy life (1918)
The development of embroidery in America (1921)
How to make rugs (1902)
Columbia's Emblem Indian Corn (1893)

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