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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years...

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Lana Turner: The truth is,...

Lana Turner: The truth is,...

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated,...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Mary Tyler Moore: Sometimes you have...

Mary Tyler Moore: Sometimes you have...

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

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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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Candice Bergen: People see you...

Candice Bergen: People see you...

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have...

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Barbra Streisand: The malignant neglect...

Barbra Streisand: The malignant neglect...

The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally,...

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Amie Comeaux: I'm moving out<br>Me...

Amie Comeaux: I'm moving out
Me...

I'm moving out
Me and my best friend Louise got it all figured out
She's got the car and I've got the...

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Amie Comeaux: Some things are...

Amie Comeaux: Some things are...

Some things are meant to happen
Some things are bound to be
Love has a way of making doubting hearts...

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Alice Childress: It becomes almost...

Alice Childress: It becomes almost...

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own...

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Simone Signoret: Chains do not...

Simone Signoret: Chains do not...

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

The [commune] movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the...

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Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.

Source: In Words...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Source: Human Work, 1904.
-- Charlotte...

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Letitia Landon: Love is a...

Letitia Landon: Love is a...

Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue,
The hour that...

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Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater...

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Anne Bronte: I would not...

Anne Bronte: I would not...

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...

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Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind . . .

Source: In Webster's...

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