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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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Jean Kerr: I think success...

Jean Kerr: I think success...

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Source:...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at...

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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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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Source: Incidents in the Life...

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Erma Bombeck: It is not...

Erma Bombeck: It is not...

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs...

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Susan Faludi: The demand that...

Susan Faludi: The demand that...

The demand that women return to femininity is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to...

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Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.


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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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Sheilah Graham: No one has...

Sheilah Graham: No one has...

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Source: The Rest of the Story,...

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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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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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Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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Dorothy Thompson: Fear grows in...

Dorothy Thompson: Fear grows in...

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

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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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Dorothea Brande: There are seeds...

Dorothea Brande: There are seeds...

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to...

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Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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