"We don't need to be feminist in my generation."

“We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”

“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?”

“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”

“Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.”

“First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.”

“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.”

Source : Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.297

“Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency...”

Source : Kate Christensen (2009). “Trouble: A Novel”, p.32, Anchor