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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found...

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Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the...

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Doris Lessing: In the writing...

Doris Lessing: In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems demonstrably...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.


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Angelina Grimke: I am a...

Angelina Grimke: I am a...

I am a mystery to myself.

Source: Letter, Feb 1838; In Letters of Theodore Dwight...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

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Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right...

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Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the...

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Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is...

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Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Source: The Second...

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Shirley Conran: You're never too...

Shirley Conran: You're never too...

You're never too old to grow up.

Source: Savages.
-- Shirley Conran, (Sep 21...

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Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Source: In Words of...

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Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her...

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