Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.