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“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some…

— Ralph Ellison

“Mary feels she should have been a boy and then everything would have been so much easier. She fights against her femininity in a…

— Jessica Fellowes

“They were all looking at Mary, and she felt more than ever like the new pupil at a school where they had high expectations…

— Philip Pullman

“Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin…

— Murray Morgan

“Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized…

— Marisa Silver

“There's an independence about Mary - she's not influenced by anyone and she's very much her own person, she makes her own decisions. I…

— Jessica Fellowes

“You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early…

— George Eliot

“Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.”

— James Montgomery Boice

“He looked at her for a moment, amazed. "How did you know that? How can a servant girl like you understand so much?" Because…

— Y.S. Lee

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay