For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

The Princess Andromeda?""Went ka-boom.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

He thought others were small

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.