“She's strong! And scary… I bet she's single… I'd put money on it..”

“Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world.
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
I bet her mama never told her why.
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl.
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am.”

“She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.”

“She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to”

“Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.”

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”

“A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“My mother was a strong, domineering woman, probably scared to death of the position she found herself in She was psychotic, attempting suicide several times and scaring the devil out of me as a kid with threats... One day [she] would say that she loved me, and the next day she'd scream that she was sorry I'd ever been born -- that I'd ruined her life... [She] would often stuff her mouth with cotton and hold her breath, pretending that she was dead, to scare me when I was small. Sometimes she'd tell me she really could walk and during the night she was going to get up, turn on the gas jets, and kill us both. I would be absolutely terrified... And yet... she encouraged my writing and would tell me that I was a good kid and she didn't know why she acted that way... but then she'd do it again.”

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”