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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Cheap labor is...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Cheap labor is...

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

The [commune] movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the...

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Anita Roddick: If you think...

Anita Roddick: If you think...

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

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Helena Rubinstein: Leave the table...

Helena Rubinstein: Leave the table...

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Source: In Words...

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Grace Hansen: For some time...

Grace Hansen: For some time...

For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat which is a great deal more than he's had on...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life's what's important....

Katharine Hepburn: Life's what's important....

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie....

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Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Between the late late show at night and Dave Garroway in the morning, why, it seems like there ain't much...

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Maria Schell: I love the...

Maria Schell: I love the...

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the...

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Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move...

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Claudette Colbert: Why do grandparents...

Claudette Colbert: Why do grandparents...

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about...

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Gracie Allen: I read a...

Gracie Allen: I read a...

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: The teenagers ain't...

Jackie Moms Mabley: The teenagers ain't...

The teenagers ain't all bad. I love 'ern if nobody else does. There ain't nothin' wrong with young people. Jus' quit...

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Amie Comeaux: When you smile...

Amie Comeaux: When you smile...

When you smile at me
You take me to a world I never thought I'd see
Your eyes can touch my soul
And fill me...

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Drew Barrymore: God made a...

Drew Barrymore: God made a...

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs...

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Lynda Barry: You know...

Lynda Barry: You know...

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole...

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Louise Nevelson: What we start...

Louise Nevelson: What we start...

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't...

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