Mary Rodgers

“It’s like what Steve said about Burt Shevelove, that his death didn’t even seem real; when people don’t live near you, you tend to think they’re just “away.”
― Mary Rodgers, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

“I uncover more and more nice things about Daddy as I think through his life. It’s also admirable that, being the kind of person who never expressed gratitude, he never demanded it either. But even my mother, who loudly and endlessly did demand gratitude, generally did the right thing in a crisis. That’s the point: Straight through my life, everywhere you look, they were horrible, especially my mother, about little things, but important things they were wonderful about. The trouble is, and this is key, it doesn’t even out. Even in my admittedly rather eventful life, there weren’t as many big things as little.”
― Mary Rodgers, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers