She tells, for example, of Alexander Stephens, a temperate Georgia representative who in 1859 abandoned politics because he found himself, in his words, caught between two trains, each with a drunken engineer, headed on a collision course.
Compact and round, she was told for years that she would never become a dancer.
Martha wasn't in the mood, she told Clark, for the wine that he was opening — but, really, she meant, for the talk.
"Your generation wants to fit in," she told me, for the second time.
It's quite possible, she told me, for a group of doctors to make nothing at all.
The idea that women are inherently weak and we've identified the few strong ones to tell stories about…is mad," she told Elle for its feminism issue.
The caller wanted to make a reservation, she told him, "for some very special guests," whose identities she would reveal moments before they arrived.
When she told me for sure, it was brilliant".
It was then she told police for the first time what was going on.
We had to find a way and we did," she told NASA for a retrospective.
