Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

我喜欢做女人，也喜欢掌控自己的生活。

我不与他人竞争，我与自己竞争。

未来的答案埋藏在过去中。

下一代的农民将是历史上最具技术头脑的一代。

解释：只要有一人起表率作用，就能带动其他人效仿。一个人的行为和言行影响着他人的行为和态度。

Believe you can and you're halfway there.