If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.
His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.
Independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience.
She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
I understand what you are feeling, he said. As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what peo...
The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should...