The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective! — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
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