Mary Garden Quotes

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for s*x underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer’s block, as if it was some kind of illness.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.