I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.


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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
GAIL GODWIN
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you...
GAIL GODWIN
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va...
GAIL PARENT
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
GAIL SHEEHY
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS
I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in th...
GAIL COLLINS
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppres...
GAIL COLLINS
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting...
GAIL COLLINS
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS
My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
GAIL COLLINS
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their go...
GAIL COLLINS
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing ho...
GAIL COLLINS
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY
Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY
Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cinc...
GAIL COLLINS
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to d...
GAIL COLLINS
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created...
GAIL COLLINS
I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN
I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen...
GAIL COLLINS
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues th...
GAIL COLLINS
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci...
GAIL SIMMONS