What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.


Mary Mapes Dodge

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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
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
The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil...
MARY DOUGLAS
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