Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.


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MARY XAVIER
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
MARY BATESON
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
MARY BLY
In violence, we forget who we are
MARY MCCARTHY
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
MARY SCHMICH
Reading is a discount to everywhere.
MARY SCHMICH
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of...
MARY SCHMICH
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
MARY BERRY
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR
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MARY MCCARTHY
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s...
MARY RENAULT
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
MARY RENAULT
Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romanti...
MARY KATE
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ...
MARY CONNEALY
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
MARY HIRSCH
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
MARY MACCRACKEN
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ...
MARY KARR
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER