So what if people say terrible things? Whatever they call me, I say, "Yes, and my name is Mary." I refuse to be afraid. And I do t...his out of an obligation not to the community but to myself. Nobody should have a say in who I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gordon: Sure, sure, I got all your copy. Why didn't you tell me you were going to write it in Greek? I'd start a new department....r />Peter: That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the libert...y of womankind. I have met and known most of the progressive women who came after her--Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone--a long galaxy of great women.... Those older women have gone on, and most of those who worked with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace, Wha for thy sake wad gladly die?... Or canst thou break that heart of his, Whase only faut is loving thee?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Lady Mary Villiers lies Under this stone; with weeping eyes... The parents that first gave her birth, And their sad friends, laid her in earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eterni...ty by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain... That her eternal Verse employ'd should be On a less subject than Eternitie;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »