Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

George Eliot

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Cynthia Heimel

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Lou Gerstner

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Francis Quarles

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Barry Goldwater

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

Geoffrey F. Abert

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

Maria Sharapova