"If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire."

“Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism”

“I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.”

“Work is both my living and my pleasure.”

“Possession is eleven points in the law.”

Source : Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.121

“You can only control what you can control.”

“I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.”

“No visiting angel could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.”

“I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.”

Source : Irwin Shaw (2013). “Short Stories: Five Decades”, p.68, Open Road Media