"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."

Anger

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This reflection on anger by Mary Garden resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in anger is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Mary Garden

Mary Garden was a Scottish-American operatic lyric soprano, then mezzo-soprano, with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she spent the last 30 years of her life and died.

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