Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
women believe home
I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity ...
distance home college
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.
home thinking next-week
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.
weapons world ridicule
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
lasts firsts haste
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
fall rain unjust
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
curiosity unbearable hunger
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
courage men coward
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
essence essence-of-life conflict
Conflict is the very essence of life.
class hatred steps
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
christmas heart might
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
boredom calm resurrection
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
honest autobiography
there is no truly honest autobiography.
stars ambition arms
because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.