“Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.”

“....I'd skimmed along life like a surfer, mistaking speed for direction. I'd feigned to be pressing forward when I was really running away”

“Once you achieve a small dream and make a small success, it gives you confidence to go on the next step”

“There is an advantage in every disadvantage and a gift in every problem.”

“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.”