"I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is."

“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.”

“Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.”

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.”

Source : Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA

“I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.”

“I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what they're looking at.”

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“You can't bank on the outcome.”

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”