Mary Heaton Vorse Quotes

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.