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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.


Mary Astor

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Tell about it.
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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