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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.


Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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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