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

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.