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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 But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... 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 The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t... MARY BARRA 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 A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ... MARY ASTOR A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. MARY ASTOR It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. MARY ASTOR The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain... MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ... 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 Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f... MARY CATHERWOOD Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau... MARY ARNIM In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality. MARY MCCARTHY It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted... MARY O'CONNOR No more tears now; I will think upon revenge. MARY STUART A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equali... MARY DALY The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a... MARY CABLE Life can be seen through your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea... MARY XAVIER Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. MARY RENAULT Life can be seen your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. MARY XAVIER