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1 " Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." " Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" " No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. "
2 " This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer.How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl’s backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic? "
― Megan Abbott , The End of Everything
3 " When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. "
4 " He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him. "
― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
5 " When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. "
