“…girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.”
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80
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“I hadn’t learned much in high school; I had majored in girls.”
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 81

Malala. "I am afraid", Saturday 3 January 2009; Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19899540, bbc.co.uk, 10 October 2012
Malala's diary, 2009

“He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.”
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 528)

As quoted in Howl (1993-07-22).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print