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Karen Horney: Is not the...

Karen Horney: Is not the...

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of...

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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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Rachel Carson: If a child...

Rachel Carson: If a child...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share...

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Peace Pilgrim: As I lived...

Peace Pilgrim: As I lived...

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and...

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Betty Friedan: It is easier...

Betty Friedan: It is easier...

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant...

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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Carry Nation: You have put...

Carry Nation: You have put...

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell...

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Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to...

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Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Source: In Newsweek, 8 Jun...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from...

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Ella T Grasso: It is not...

Ella T Grasso: It is not...

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about...

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St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . ....

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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Alice Paul: It is better,...

Alice Paul: It is better,...

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense...

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