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If old age in the shape of waning strength says to me often, 'Thou shalt not!' so do my years smile upon me and say to me, 'Thou needst not.'

Mary Heaton Vorse

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

Mary Heaton Vorse

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.

Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse

Born: 1874

Died: 1966 (aged 92)

Bio: Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien was an American journalist, labor activist, and novelist.

Known for:

Time and the town (1942)
Autobiography of an elderly woman (1911)
Sinister Romance
Rebel Pen
Strike! (1930)

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