Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland
Margaret Delandwas an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1857
stars wall men
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
two ems duty
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
real divorce decree
Real divorce takes place without a decree ...
sex brain
Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!
hero greatness people
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
men wife virtue
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
home sick illness
Home is the best place to be sick in.
hard-work quality interest
a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
cutting taste unhappiness
a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
jewels sea light
the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
bombshells letters frail
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
mind letters reader
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
grandmother men hats
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
lonely temptation devil
we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...