My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.


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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
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of...
MARY SCHMICH
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
MARY BERRY
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR
Congress
MARY MCCARTHY
The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil...
MARY DOUGLAS
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s...
MARY RENAULT
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
MARY RENAULT
Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romanti...
MARY KATE
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ...
MARY CONNEALY
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
MARY HIRSCH
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
MARY MACCRACKEN
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ...
MARY KARR
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MARY BROWNE