Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertzwas an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952 she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. While she was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, in the 1960s she authored two books on ancient Egypt, both of which have remained in print ever since...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1927
CountryUnited States of America
enemy trouble difficult
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
political causes noble
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
cat people touching
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
cat self looks
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
mother pain doors
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
years body
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...
husband heart moral
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
cat quality likes
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.
funny women want
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
long doubt gold
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
marriage views stalemate
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
cat approval
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
children privacy feels
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
dust instinct scholarly
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.