The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'