Mary Anning Quote by Tracy Chevalier

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

“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

“...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

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

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

— Alice Ozma

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Most of the women I knew needed the validation of an admiring male eye, even if the other eye was wandering.”

— Donna Brookman Kaulkin

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver

“Gentled, humbled, and ready to look at the world through very different eyes.”

— Daniel Campbell

“Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder.”

— Helene Munson

“Your eyes are the shade of intelligence, able to pierce a man’s heart with merely a glance. As they have done so to mine.”

— Elizabeth Boyle

“she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.”

— Whitney Otto