Mary Ann Evans

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or evans:

    “There are some cases ... in which the sense of injury breeds—not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but—a hatred of all injury.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Parenting is the one area of my life where I can feel incompetent, out of control and like a total failure all of the time.”
    —Attorney Father. As quoted in Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, ch. 4 (1994)

    “... his rank penetrated them as though it had been an odour.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can frighten you any more. And you can’t do tragedy before you know absolute happiness, because having known that, you are safe.”
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)