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If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?


Mary Ruefle

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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a...
MARY LAMBERT Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY SHELLEY When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it ...
MARY KARR It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a ...
MARY BARRA I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
MARY BERRY Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilder...
MARY OLIVER Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least ...
MARY OLIVER Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-wor...
MARY LAMBERT It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other...
MARY PICKFORD Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
MARY PICKFORD I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I inte...
MARY PICKFORD