Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.