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Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#religion #life

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#child #clean #cover #good #ought

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#drop #everglades #hat #i #talk

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#before #belle #fault #feel #greatly

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#age #because #cause #disability #every

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#go #good #i #mind #set

Conservation is now a dead word.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#dead #now #word

I'm just a tough old woman.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#just #old #old woman #tough #woman

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#day #getting #late #little #little bit

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.


— Marjory Stoneman Douglas


#anywhere #been #earth #else #everglades






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Did you know about Marjory Stoneman Douglas?

She had been working on a book about W. Douglas became involved with the Miami Theater and wrote some one-act plays that were fashionable in the 1930s. She witnessed her mother's emotional unraveling that caused her to be institutionalized and even long after her mother returned to live with her Marjory Stoneman Douglas exhibited bizarre childlike behaviors.

Her books stories and journalism career brought her influence in Miami which Marjory Stoneman Douglas used to advance her causes. She was called upon to take a central role in the protection of the Everglades when Marjory Stoneman Douglas was 79 years old. Even as a young woman Douglas was outspoken and politically conscious of many issues that included women's suffrage and civil rights.

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