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Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom - the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure - cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime - much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

It would be easier to peel off a three-day-old Band-Aid from a hairy kneecap than to remove the patina of Baptist upbringing that coats my psyche.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives — with accrued interest — in the mature years.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Born: February 29, 1944 (age 81)

Bio: Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an American author born in Wilmington, North Carolina to William Russell and Lucy Ella Robinson.

Known for:

Encyclopedia Of Gothic Literature (2005)
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature (2014)

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