Mary Hunter Austin

Writer

1868-09-09

Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin

• Death by starvation is slow.

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• To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

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• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

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• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

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• What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

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