Mary Washington

Mary Washington may refer to:

  • Mary L. Washington, a Maryland legislator
  • Mary Ball Washington (1708 – 1789), mother of U.S. President George Washington
  • University of Mary Washington

Famous quotes containing the words mary and/or washington:

    “Miss Mary Emerson is here,—the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,—and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I don’t know a great deal about life in Washington for women—I spent a summer there once working in the White House, and my main memories of the experience have to do with a very bad permanent wave I have always been convinced kept me from having a meaningful relationship with President Kennedy ...”
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)