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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The white world...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The white world...

The white world is feverishly anxious to know of our thoughts, our hopes, our dreams. Organization is our strongest...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.


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Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

This place certainly reeks of hospitality and good cheer, or maybe it's this cheese.

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Source:...

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Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever...

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Shirley Chisholm: When morality comes...

Shirley Chisholm: When morality comes...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.

Source: In...

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Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Source: Female vs....

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Sara Teasdale: Moon, worn thin...

Sara Teasdale: Moon, worn thin...

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,
In the dawn clouds flying,
How good to go, light into light, and...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with...

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Marguerite de Valois: The woman who...

Marguerite de Valois: The woman who...

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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Geena Davis: I finally understand...

Geena Davis: I finally understand...

I finally understand what all the fuss is about now. It's just like a whole other ball...

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