Mary Jane Ward Professions : Novelist Born : August 27, 1905 Died : 1981 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Mary Jane Ward When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up. Mary Jane Ward locks illness sick Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. Mary Jane Ward institutions citizens committed Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity. Mary Jane Ward insane-person long-ago snakes But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment. Mary Jane Ward stars looks thinking Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences. Mary Jane Ward writing pay compliment Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
