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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought...

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Ernestine L Rose: She had her...

Ernestine L Rose: She had her...

She had her reward! -- that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious --...

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Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do...

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Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

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June Jordan: As a poet...

June Jordan: As a poet...

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements...

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Helen Keller: I long to...

Helen Keller: I long to...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...

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Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the...

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Liz Smith: No matter who...

Liz Smith: No matter who...

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

Source: In...

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Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Source:...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Women have changed in their relationship to men, but men stand pat just where Adam did when it comes to dealing with...

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Marge Piercy: When I work...

Marge Piercy: When I work...

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting...

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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of...

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Eda LeShan: . ....

Eda LeShan: . ....

. . . in all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold...

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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be...

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Sojourner Truth: We do as...

Sojourner Truth: We do as...

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides...

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