Margaret Taylor Smith is an author and social activist, and was chair of the Kresge Foundation until 1998. She received an A.B. in 1947 from Duke University, where the Margaret Taylor Smith Directorship in Women's Studies is named for her.
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“Sometimes we can’t avoid giving pain, even to friends.”
—Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Margaret (Phyllis Coates)
“A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up
overnight—
These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted,
rooted only on the air,”
—William Jay Smith (b. 1918)