When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ...
MARY KARR When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it ...
MARY KARR Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...
MARY KARR If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in whi...
MARY KARR The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. ...
MARY KARR Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
MARY KARR I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately w...
MARY KARR For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written ...
MARY KARR Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemp...
MARY KARR Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff a...
MARY KARR Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn&#...
MARY KARR The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and na...
MARY KARR Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curiou...
MARY KARR If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There...
MARY KARR I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
MARY KARR As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
MARY KARR Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz...
MARY KARR We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.
MARY KARR There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
MARY KARR A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
MARY KARR For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.
MARY KARR What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid ho...
MARY KARR sentimentality is only emotion you haven’t proven to the reader—emotion without vivid evidence.
MARY KARR A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries...
ALPHONSE KARR We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
ALPHONSE KARR Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they th...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he think...
ALPHONSE KARR The more things change, the more they are the same.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding...
ALPHONSE KARR We can invent only with memory.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the...
ALPHONSE KARR Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
ALPHONSE KARR I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presi...
ALPHONSE KARR Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which incl...
ALPHONSE KARR Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
ALPHONSE KARR Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
ALPHONSE KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the ...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks...
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR The fight for Internet freedom is now being waged in earnest. On one side you have the public...on t...
TIM KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, let our friends the murderers make the first move.
ALPHONSE KARR All Medicare drug plans have to cover all medically necessary treatments.
GARY KARR The more things change, the more they remain the same.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
ALPHONSE KARR One of the concerns we have is that folks are overly anxious and think they've got to go find a plan...
GARY KARR Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which incl...
ALPHONSE KARR We're also working on further steps to insure that, when a beneficiary goes to a pharmacy in 2006, t...
GARY KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the ...
ALPHONSE KARR Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others
ALPHONSE KARR De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép...
ALPHONSE KARR It was a matter of reallocating resources to focus on high-priority projects.
DOYLE KARR It's not a threat to us.
DOYLE KARR We are on track for what we had said for 2005.
DOYLE KARR We want to make sure people know they don't have to decide today, tomorrow, even Monday. There's a l...
GARY KARR You'll be able to plug in essentially what's important to you. If you say, 'I want to find a plan th...
GARY KARR We wanted to respect all the partners out there and their religious beliefs.
GARY KARR The bridge commission has become a prime example of unethical behavior and cronyism. The individuals...
GARY KARR He has known for a long time that he would not be renominated, ... What I told him about the state w...
GARY KARR Beneficiaries should be hearing from their former employer or union this fall about their coverage o...
GARY KARR When you can level volume declines off to zero or a slight decline, you've made great progress. This...
KARR INGHAM Our tax policy with regards to energy is so far way from Mr. Smith's teachings that we probably will...
KARR INGHAM These levels of activity have brought new players, mainly large independents.
KARR INGHAM These are circumstances created by a sustained high oil price scenario -- the level of which was une...
KARR INGHAM It was certainly the biggest news story in the consuming world.
KARR INGHAM The radio stations have licensed the use of the airwaves, so there's an obligation for them to be ho...
TIMOTHY KARR Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.
PHYLLIS ANN KARR Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks h...
ALPHONSE KARR (1808-1890) Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
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