"A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature."

“It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this”

“They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you?”

“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.19, Yale University Press

“Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.”

“All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.”

Source : Kent Greenfield (2011). “The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”, p.10, Yale University Press

“I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.”

“Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.”

“What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.”