The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share
