Memory feeds imagination.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Each body has its art...
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
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.