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Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Source: In...

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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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Olympia Brown: He who never...

Olympia Brown: He who never...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

This idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another --...

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Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of...

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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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Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison...

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Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Source: In The...

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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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Maya Angelou: I love to...

Maya Angelou: I love to...

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick...

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Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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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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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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Anne Frank: I don't believe...

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little...

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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by...

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Anne Frank: The final forming...

Anne Frank: The final forming...

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Source: The...

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Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it 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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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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