Behinds Quote by Mary Heaton Vorse

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

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

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

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

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

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

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

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

— Mary Heaton Vorse