Ideas Move Fast When Their Time Comes.

Ironically, Women Who Acquire Power Are More Likely To Be Criticized For It Than Are The Men Who Have Always Had It.

People Who Are Genuinely Involved In Life, Not Just Living A Routine They've Contrived To Protect Them From Disaster, Always Seem To Have More Demanded Of Them Than They Can Easily Take On.

Women, I Believe, Search For Fellow Beings Who Have Faced Similar Struggles, Conveyed Them In Ways A Reader Can Transform Into Her Own Life, Confirmed Desires The Reader Had Hardly Acknowledge-desires That Now Seem Possible. Women Catch Courage From The Women Whose Lives And Writings They Read, And Women Call The Bearer Of That Courage Friend. [p. 138]

What Marks A Writer Is This: Until She - Or He, Of Course - Writes Down Whatever Happened, Turns It Into A Story, It Hasn't Really Happened, It Hasn't Shape, Form, Reality.

Power Consists To A Large Extent In Deciding What Stories Will Be Told.