Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.
You can't write if you don't read.
Be great, read great books.
Reading is my greatest luxury.
We become the books we read.
I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
Reading is food for the brain.
Don't believe everything you read.
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
I've loved reading all my life.
My mother taught me to read.
If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
I'm not that smart, and I don't read things.
I don't read all the newspapers.
Write as if no one is going to read it.
[...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have...
Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name. “Does your mother call you Pigeon?” “No.” “Then to me you are Paul.” ... “Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. “My mother never calls me Nathan.” “Is it...
