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“This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics. I was…

— Mary Sojourner

“Unfortunately, Vaughan Williams talked and wrote a great deal of sheer nonsense about his supposed amateurishness.”

— Alain Frogley

“You should know that.” Pietr sounded serious. “You guys find a great story like this in some different zine, it gets taken away from…

— Clare O'Beara

“I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the…

— Josh Alan Friedman

“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

“If there was one thing she’d learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn’t do something.”

— Timothy Zahn

“The ads in the papers all said 'help wanted, will train,' but wherever she went she was turned down. "The position's just been filled,"…

— Julie Otsuka

“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or…

— Ross Macdonald

“classic female mistake. I thought that it was all about doing my job extraordinarily well. If I put my head down and worked as…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“The only thing which really seemed to pay off in life, if you went by Mary Pedersen's example, was sleeping with your superiors.”

— Jonas Eriksson

“Tally wasn’t sure if she wanted to say too much about her profession to this gentleman just yet. Experience taught her that telling people…

— K. Huber

“Getting caught reading Fifty Shades of Grey in the parking lot at work wasn’t the best way to meet her boss.”

— Julia Kent