I absolutely adored Mary. I was transfixed by her. She was so beautiful, so witty, so much fun to talk to.
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Mary McCarthy
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This could destroy Roman. Marriage vows mean nothing to him but few men have adored a woman as much as he adored Sharon.
Sharon Tate
She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.John Suckling
...Mrs. Conklin points out certain bad conversational habits and suggests good ones, quoting Buckle's classic classification of talkers into three orders of intelligence — those who talk about nothing but persons, those who talk about things and those who discuss ideas... (review of Mary Greer Conklin's book Conversation: What to say and how to say it in The Continent, Jan. 23, 1913, p. 118)
Eleanor Roosevelt
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
Mary Poppins seems the epitome of the punishing governess, the bullying woman who has an apt saying for every occasion, and who subdues children as they were subdued in the Victorian age, when they were seen and not heard. ... She carefully hides her compassion. Almost sadistic at times, Mary is never really nasty but often very sharp. She is a controlling force, making order from disorder, making magic, and then never admitting magic took place. ... Mary Poppins threatens to leave at a point of time which only she controls. She tells her charges she will be with them until the wind changes or until her necklace breaks. She never tells them where she has come from, where she intends to go or who she really is. But she leaves many clues. Like Francis of Assisi, she is close to animals and birds, with whom she can talk. Like Jesus she helps the poor and weak. She understands the universe and seems to take part in its creation and renewal. She is known as the Great Expectation, the Oddity, the Misfit.
P. L. Travers
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