Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

James Allen

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

James Lafferty

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

Linda Grant

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guil

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Sheryl Sandberg

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Charles M. Schwab

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Oscar Wilde

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

Wm. Paul Young

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Mel Brooks

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Thomas Carlyle