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Mary Ann Glendon
Mary Ann Glendon is described in biographical records as an American diplomat (born 1938) (born 1938). The selections gathered here touch on family, marriage, parenting. This profile brings the attributed quotations together with their available source information.
“The [current] American story about marriage, as told in the law and in much popular literature, goes something like this: marriage is a relationship that exists primarily for the fulfillment of the individual spouses. If it ceases to perform this function, no one is to blame and either spouse may terminate it at will. … Children hardly appear in the story; at most they are rather shadowy characters in the background.”— Mary Ann Glendon
Biography at a glance
- Profile: American diplomat (born 1938)
- Life: born 1938
- Public roles: ambassador
- Quotes in this collection: 1
Life and work
Mary Ann Glendon held public roles including ambassador. Biographical records connect Mary Ann Glendon with University of Chicago Law School and Free University of Brussels. This collection includes one quotation credited to Mary Ann Glendon. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.
Reading the quotations
The selections gathered here touch on family, marriage, parenting. These topic links make it easier to compare these words with other voices in the LDS Flow library. Citations are shown on the individual quotation pages where the source collection provided them.