Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes - Page 3

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Firsts, Married

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House”, p.61, Essential Library

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• The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Writing, Careers, May

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
  move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
  But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
  but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
  His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Love Stories”, p.136, The Floating Press

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• War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  War, Fall, Son

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1915). “Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front”

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• I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Women, Believe, Home

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tragedy, Experience, Generations

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1972). “Lost Ecstasy”

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• Enemies are an indication of character.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Character, Enemy, Indication

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Bat”, p.60, Booklassic

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• it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Writing, People, Perfect

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Unexpected, Terror, Repeats

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• [The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Normal, Discouragement

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Life And Love, Drama, Book

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.9, Essential Library

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• Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Dog, Women, Fetch

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Humorous, Men, Jokes

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.22, The Floating Press

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• The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Husband, Ideas, Age

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Hair, My Family, Social

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.180, Essential Library

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• Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Writing, Silence

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Illusion, Revelations, Accepting

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Fear, Cancer, Men

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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• every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Action, Life Is, Results

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tree, Mind, Age

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

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• Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1920). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man”

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• It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Missing, Said, Possession

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Wall, Paper, Used

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1959). “Miss Pinkerton”

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