No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.


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As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people hav...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becomin...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes o...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes o...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to s...
MARGOT BENARY-ISBERT
Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emot...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossib...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
MARGOT BENARY-ISBERT
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories ab...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defin...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talen...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfi...
RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH