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Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one.

Summer’s last gasps were mixed in with the first breaths of autumn.

Later, over the years, both at work and my personal life, I have had countless men repeat my ideas back to me as if they were theirs—as if I would not remember having come up with those thoughts in the first place.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond control.

It was not lost on her that by uniting her passion for the arts with her charitable endeavors she was reconciling her father‘s intellectual fervor with her mother‘s social skills