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Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.


Mary Whitehouse

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though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a...
MARY DALY If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
MARY ARCHER Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
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