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A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.


Mary Lascelles

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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