#wi

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#almost #approach #break #came #education

I never thought I could win the French Open. ↗

— Li Na

#french #french open #i #never #open

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.' ↗

— Li Na

#chinese #first #grand #grand slam #i

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#because #i #just #lose #painful

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#change #gears #going #see #speed

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#daily #democracy #without

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. ↗