...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Not every book is for every reader.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

يؤلمني أنَّ كلَّ الأشياء ظلَّت وفيةً، إلا أنتِ.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

It is plain that we were meant to go together.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Anything can happen in the WWF.

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.