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Susan Sontag: A large part...

Susan Sontag: A large part...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...

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Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Source: The...

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Judith Martin: If you can't...

Judith Martin: If you can't...

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Source: Miss Manners.
-- Judith Martin,...

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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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Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

What its children become, that will the community become.

Source: In Words of Women...

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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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Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...

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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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Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Truth is naturally universal, said Akananda, and shines into many different windows, though some of them are...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

The morals of today are the immorals of yesterday, the creeds of tomorrow.

Source:...

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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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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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Robin Morgan: If I had...

Robin Morgan: If I had...

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the...

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Ellen Goodman: Traditions are the...

Ellen Goodman: Traditions are the...

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep into our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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Sophia Loren: There is a...

Sophia Loren: There is a...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of...

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