"A physically large woman with an equally large amount of inner strength, she was not afraid of confronting Jack's cli…"

"Evidently the citizens of Issaquah initially appreciated her strength and independent spirit, because her name was ba…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."

"Even not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!"

"Physical inferiority is always stressed rather than relieved by a militaristic rule; so that it would not surprise me…"