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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.


Mary Hirsch

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Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
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MARY KARR 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