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Professor Lyall looked modestly proud. "I am considered a bit of an expert on the procreative practices of Ovis orientalis aries."
"Sheep?"
"Sheep."
"Sheep!" Madame Lefoux's voice came over suddenly high, as though she were suppressing an inclination to giggle.
"Yes, as in baaaa." Professor Lyall frowned.


Gail Carriger

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GAIL SHEEHY Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON Everything seems simpler from a distance.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON 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