I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
You should know which opportunities to choose.
The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.
Measure a person by what they do with power.
What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.