Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.