Quote by Dominic Milne

“She attempts to give the impression of untiring activity, thereby underlining her importance. Meanwhile her colleagues calmly and expertly get on with the job…

— Steven Bach

“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”

— Sara Sheridan

“As she passed her son-in-law’s room, she would repeat a joke she had heard from the workers at the factory: ‘We, the owners, must…

— Vasily Grossman

“her. ‘Listening to people’s responses,”

— Arundhathi Subramaniam

“It seems to her that most of what she's done in her life has been of this ilk. Projects, ultimately inconsequential. Who have they…

— Margaret Atwood

“Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into…

— Alexis M. Smith

“She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be…

— Henry Kissinger

“She reeked of tenure”

— Kim Harrison

“A belligerent-looking woman was waiting for us by the door. She spoke to us in a hectoring, hysterical tone that was to become very…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she…

— Edith Wharton

“I knew from her deportment she was trained. Therefore likely to be working with an organization, rather than on some sort of private mission.”

— Barry Eisler

“Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.”

— Barbara Kingsolver