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Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the...

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Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got.

Source:...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in...

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Olympia Brown: He who never...

Olympia Brown: He who never...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the...

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Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Source: In Jeanette...

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Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...

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Janet Frame: [V]ery often the...

Janet Frame: [V]ery often the...

[V]ery often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. . . .

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Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Then again, maybe I won't.

Source: Book title, 1971.
-- Judy Blume, (Feb 12...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Source: Quoted...

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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Elizabeth II: It's all to...

Elizabeth II: It's all to...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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