...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.