Mary Jane Ward

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Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana—February 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book The Snake Pit was made into an Oscar-winning film.

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Quotes from Mary Jane Ward

You wanted to get well.… Asked your greatest wish in life, you would have replied at once—sanity.… In the world outside, people longed desperately to be millionaires, movie actors, club presidents.… But nowhere, nowhere save the madhouse, did mental health get its share of prayers.

—Mary Jane Ward