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No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) -- Ayn Rand
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead" -- Ayn Rand
I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y. -- Gayle King
Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence." -- Ayn Rand
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her. -- Bob Costas
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. -- Frederick Buechner
Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot. -- Daniel Woodrell
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death. -- Ned Rorem
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you. -- Ayn Rand
Gail Carson Levine -- Character, Hate, Story
Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. -- Daniel Okrent

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