The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?