The world has ever had its vestal virgins, its holy women, mothers of ideas rather than of men; its Marys, as well as its Marthas, who, rather than be busy housewives, preferred to sit at the feet of divine wisdom, and ponder the mysteries of the unknown.
"Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
These two Marys so different, so well represented by Spanish art, embody one of those shining symbols with which Christianity abounds.
"Eugenie Grandet"
Honore de Balzac
She counted up and she knew seven Marys, with her grandmother and old Mrs. Wilcox, who's deaf and half blind, and four Roses.
"Mary Rose of Mifflin"
Frances R. Sterrett
