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Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: All of my...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: All of my...

All of my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: We write our...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: We write our...

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have...

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Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, [sons] employ the lamp, to treasure up for...

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St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you...

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Bella Abzug: If we get...

Bella Abzug: If we get...

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You always admire...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You always admire...

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Source: Meet the Press, 16 Sep...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: As a result...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: As a result...

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Faith sees the...

Corrie Ten Boom: Faith sees the...

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Once you've been...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Once you've been...

Once you've been No. 1, you can never be satisfied with less.

Source: In Fire Over...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Happiness is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: Happiness is nothing...

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Source: Moses: Man of...

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Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Source:...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its...

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Rachel Carson: It is a...

Rachel Carson: It is a...

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its caldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of...

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Wilma Rudolph: Sometimes it takes...

Wilma Rudolph: Sometimes it takes...

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Source: In...

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Marie Curie: I have no...

Marie Curie: I have no...

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be...

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