(About parenting:). . . all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements. . . all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.
The battle of Kursk. . . the forcing of the Dnieper. . . and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.
Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports. ' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.
People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.