Mary Schmich
Mary Schmich
Mary Theresa Schmichis an American journalist who has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr for the last 28 of its 60 years and she wrote the 1997 column, immediately famous, that is usually called "Wear Sunscreen", with the often quoted "Do one thing every day that scares you", frequently misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.
Don't waste your time on jealousy...
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.