She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

Being willing and able to adapt quickly to changes has been proven many times to be a key quality in success. Willing Change

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.