"Dan was heading for the blue car in the driveway. He tossed Amy the car keys. "Don't drive like you! Make it fast!"

“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.”

“They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?”

Source : "Racing pays its respects to Ginger McCain at memorial service" by Will Hayler, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2011.

“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.”

“I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”

Source : "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.

“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY

“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”

“Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.”

“Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.”