Mary Austin

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see read more

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general read more

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of read more

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in read more

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.