The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.