When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.