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Maria Montessori: The teacher must...

Maria Montessori: The teacher must...

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must...

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Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you...

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Margaret Mead: I must admit...

Margaret Mead: I must admit...

I must admit I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human...

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Clare Boothe Luce: There are no...

Clare Boothe Luce: There are no...

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the surest test of discipline is its absence.

Source: The Story
-- Clara...

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St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

Source:...

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Greta Garbo: There are many...

Greta Garbo: There are many...

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

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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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Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in...

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Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

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Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...

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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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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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Martina Navratilova: I came to...

Martina Navratilova: I came to...

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: The power I...

Sandra Day O'Connor: The power I...

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and...

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Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really...

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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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