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I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.


Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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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