Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born in New Jersey in 1898 and died in 1993. After attending the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York and studying abroad in France and England, she returned to New York to work as an illustrator and writer. She produced more than one hundred magazine articles and short stories, illustrated children's books, and wrote articles for newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Woman's Home Companion, The American Mercury, Holiday, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Parents Magazine, Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, The Saturday Evening Post Magazine of Home Life (1925–1950), Vogue (1929–1937), and Woman's Day (1933–1994). She also worked for the Federal Writers' Project and the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
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
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.Marjory Stoneman Douglas
