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Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Mary Jo Putney

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

Mary Jo Putney

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.

Mary Jo Putney

We all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

Mary Jo Putney

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Mary Jo Putney

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Mary Jo Putney

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Mary Jo Putney

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults.... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Mary Jo Putney

Mary Jo Putney

Mary Jo Putney

Bio: Mary Jo Putney is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She has also published romantic fantasy novels as M.J. Putney.

Known for:

Loving a Lost Lord
Not Quite a Wife
No Longer a Gentleman
Not Always a Saint
Dancing on the Wind

Mary Jo Putney on Wikipedia

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