Quote by John Steinbeck

“Mary is…different to me. I’m not going to pretend I understand why. All I know is, she’s a pounding in my chest that I…

— J.R. Ward

“Instead she squeezes Mary’s arm and appreciates her kindness. Her understanding. This is why people have children, even when they believe the world is…

— Jessica Shattuck

“...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 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 worries about not having enough words in her head”

— Mary Szybist

“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

“Mary tells herself that if only she could have a child she could carry around like an extra lung, the emptiness inside her would…

— Mary Szybist

“Mary's smile is a spotlight—whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Mary was an odd, determined person, and now she had something interesting to be determined about, she was very much absorbed, indeed.”

— Alice Ozma

“He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no good to…

— Joe Hill

“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

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes.”

— Adrienne Rich