When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.