"I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.”

Source : "Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard". Book by L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook (p. 156), 1983.
“Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.”
“It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.”
“There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.”
“I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.”
“We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.”

Source : Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen
“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”

Source : "Go West". www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”

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