I could almost smell her fear... Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicker, whatever. It was a rule for playing with the big boys.

'I won't die, eaten alive,' he said. He put a fresh clip in his gun. 'I'll do you first if you want, or you can do it yourself.'

My eyes were running because there were piieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.'

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.