“...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

“Being able to use words properly was a great advantage, for the more words you knew the meaning of, the better you could think. --David from Anne Holm's I Am David.”

“It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to.--Polgara”

“As I grew older I learned to be ashamed of being poor, too. It became humiliating, something I'd do everything I could to hide from the rest of the world. I developed an overwhelming sense of being excluded from everything. Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect. That's mostly during the teenage years.”

“As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.”

“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”