The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.