"As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Peg Bracken

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“[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.”
“Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.”
“To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.”

Source : Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.
“All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.”
“My fault now is making my plays too short.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. September 30, 2002.
“The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.”
“When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?”
“A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.”

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