The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Who were these clowns?
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.