Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.
If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.
I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.
If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little. . . Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1. 5 million, $2 million, $2. 5 million. Life changing amounts.
Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.
There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.