Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupils soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. – Muriel Spark
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. – Muriel Spark
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder theres a gender gap. – Dee Dee Myers