"Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would."

-- Larry Ellison

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“I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.”
“The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.”
“They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.”
“I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.”
“I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.”
“If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.”
“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”
“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”

Source : "Fixed" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 29, 2010.

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