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Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to...

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Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Source: Social...

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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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Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the...

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Reba McEntire: . . ....

Reba McEntire: . . ....

. . . we got our lungs from Daddy, and we exercised them early and often during those years up in the hills gathering...

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Nina Simone: It's time to...

Nina Simone: It's time to...

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

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Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Lorraine Hansberry: Never be afraid...

Lorraine Hansberry: Never be afraid...

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Source:
-- Lorraine Hansberry, (May 19...

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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is...

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Cher: I can trust...

Cher: I can trust...

I can trust my friends. . . . These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to...

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Christina Aguilera: In this business,...

Christina Aguilera: In this business,...

In this business, it's often all about hype, record sales, and a crazy schedule of traveling, performances, and it can...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Source: The...

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Sophia Loren: The two big...

Sophia Loren: The two big...

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in...

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Lauren Bacall: I'm not the...

Lauren Bacall: I'm not the...

I'm not the public.

Source: On being told that a store was not open to the...

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Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Source: In...

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Lily Tomlin: Why is it...

Lily Tomlin: Why is it...

Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be praying -- but when God talks to us, we're...

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