If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes. . . You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.