Vorse

Famous quotes containing the word vorse:

    Before Lawrence, I had known a good deal about labor, but I had not felt about it. I had not got angry. In Lawrence I got angry. I wanted to do something about it.
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

    All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

    ... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)