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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

Cathy Guisewite

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Cathy Guisewite

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Umberto Guidoni

But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

Umberto Guidoni

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

Umberto Guidoni