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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.


Mary Garden

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MARY BROWNE Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the mo...
MARY ASTELL When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegr...
MARY OLIVER I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I'...
MARY LAMBERT Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation wi...
MARY DOUGLAS Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to disp...
MARY PIPHER