“الندم لا يؤدي إلا إلى إبقائكم عاقين في فخ الماضي”

“Life without humor is not funny.”

“ما نفتر نقسم يومنا إلى نصفين ، نصف نقضيه في الندم على مافات ، والنصف الآخر في القلق مما سيأتي ! ، ويضيع العمر بين مشكلات الماضي وتطلعات المستقبل ، وتنسل أحلامنا من بين أصابعنا !”

“ماذا تفعل حين تعيش في ثقافة لاتقدر ، بطبيعة ذاتها ، أن ترى إلى المستقبل إلا بعين الماضي ، ولا تقدر أن ترى فيه أكثر من كونه مجالاً لتجلي الماضي ، ببهائه اللانهائي ، بحيث لا يكون الزمن المقبل كله إلا مناسبة لتحيين ما مضى ؟”

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”

“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.”

“...Obduracy can be overcome by determination. More insidious, and far harder to destroy, was women's internalizing of the notion that they were somehow inferior to men, a complementary species designed (in W.R. Greg's words) to 'complet[e], sweeten, and embellish the existence of others'. [Women] still chose to become nurses rather than doctors, secretaries rather than bosses: to be ill-paid facilitators for people no more talented nor, in many cases, better educated than themselves, but who simply happened to be men. The notion that they might be their bosses' equals penetrated only very slowly; the possibility that they might even be their superiors, though accepted in theory, has perhaps still not wholly sunk in.”