Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Martha Mason (American Memoirist)

Martha Ann Mason (1937–2009) was an American memoirist. She lived 61 years in an iron lung before her death, longer than any other polio survivor in the world did.

Born and based in Lattimore, North Carolina, Mason was stricken with polio during the 1948 epidemic. After a year of hospitalization, Mason came home in an iron lung, and doctors told her parents she would live another year at most. Mason began a home-schooling program with daily visits from her teachers, reading voraciously and graduating with the highest honors from high school and college. Mason lived a full life with members of her 400-person town visiting her frequently.

Mason’s Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung (2003,) written with a voice-activated computer, was published to critical acclaim. Mason’s life was portrayed in the documentary Martha in Lattimore (2005.) She also appeared in The Final Inch (2005,) a documentary about polio.

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The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It’s the man who still has his best friend.
Martha Mason
Topics: Friendship

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