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Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that...

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Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself...

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Hermione Gingold: To call him...

Hermione Gingold: To call him...

To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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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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Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself...

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Roseanne Barr: I know how...

Roseanne Barr: I know how...

I know how to do anything -- I'm a mom.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is...

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Marian Anderson: A singer starts...

Marian Anderson: A singer starts...

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of...

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Madonna: I'm anal retentive....

Madonna: I'm anal retentive....

I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could...

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Pearl Bailey: You never find...

Pearl Bailey: You never find...

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE<br>THE...

May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE
THE...

THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
is The Nude Descending a Staircase
a circular one. See...

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Sarah Siddons: Sorry am I...

Sarah Siddons: Sorry am I...

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than...

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Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the...

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Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Source: The Varied...

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Agnes George DeMille: Living is a...

Agnes George DeMille: Living is a...

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what's next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a...

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Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask...

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Alice Childress: I think women...

Alice Childress: I think women...

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep...

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