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
courage men coward
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
humorous men fellows
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
men house haunted-houses
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
opportunity equality men
Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.
fear cancer men
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
men thinking action
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
men class ego
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
men strain
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
dirty grateful men
Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.
war men may
Old men make wars that young men may die.
boys men elderly
as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
hard-work men play
Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.
children men thinking
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...
girl men boys
Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.