A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.


Mary Astor

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All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I married beneath me; all women do.
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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
NANCY ASTOR
I married beneath me - all women do.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
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Power is the ability to do good things for others.
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'21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they...
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Am I dying, or is this my birthday?
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I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
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We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.
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Without the use of this domino transplant, most likely Kayla wouldn't have had the opportunity to ge...
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DR. TODD ASTOR
Without the use of this domino transplant, most likely, Kayla wouldn't have had the opportunity to g...
DR. TODD ASTOR
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NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
From the American newspapers, you'd think America was populated by naked women and cinema stars
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
I married beneath me. All women do.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
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NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which lin...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
From the American newspapers, you'd think America was populated by naked women and cinema stars
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My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
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MARY SCHMICH
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MARY SCHMICH
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MARY BERRY
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MARY BUCKLEY
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MARY MCDOWELL
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MARY MCCARTY
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MARY MCCARTHY
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR
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MARY SHELLEY
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART
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MARY DOUGLAS
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MARY MATALIN
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MARY MCCARTHY
There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN
We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN
If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN
Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN
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MARY AUSTIN
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN
These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN
The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY
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MARY BALOGH
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY
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World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH
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MARY STUART
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MARY CATHERWOOD
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE
to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER
The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD
I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE
A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal...
MARY PICKFORD
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l...
MARY DALY
Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY
The divine egoism hat is genius.
MARY WEBB
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
MARY HAYS
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
MARY PICKFORD
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER
In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a...
MARY DALY
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL
It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
MARY ARCHER
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
MARY BLY
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY