I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
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.
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.
Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.