Entries from Come Sit a While that draw on the words of Mary Anne Radmacher.
Mary Anne Radmacher is an American writer and artist whose words have traveled the world far beyond her own name recognition — quoted in commencement speeches, stitched onto pillows, read at funerals, and printed in countless journals, often without anyone knowing who first wrote them. This particular line began life as part of a longer poem, first shown publicly in a 1985 gallery exhibit, long before it became one of the most widely circulated definitions of courage in the English language. Radmacher has spent her career exploring, through writing and art, what it means to live a full and intentional life, and this one sentence — born quietly in a gallery, decades before the internet would carry it everywhere — has become her most enduring gift to the world.
Entries featuring Mary Anne Radmacher
- The Quiet Voice (2026-06-15)
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