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Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Then again, maybe I won't.

Source: Book title, 1971.
-- Judy Blume, (Feb 12...

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Ann Landers: If you want...

Ann Landers: If you want...

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Source: In The...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

He who laughs, lasts.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert...

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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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Eileen Caddy: Stride forward with...

Eileen Caddy: Stride forward with...

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today...

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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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Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical...

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Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert...

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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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Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...

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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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Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

The most subtle flattery a woman can receive is that conveyed by actions, not by words.

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Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no...

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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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Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both...

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Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning...

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Kate Millett: If only no...

Kate Millett: If only no...

If only no one had told them I was mad. Then I wouldn't be.

Source: The Loony-Bin...

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