Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.

In God's eyes, we're all the same.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.