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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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Grandma Moses: . . ....

Grandma Moses: . . ....

. . . daydreams, as it were . . . I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different...

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Sharon Stone: Real happiness comes...

Sharon Stone: Real happiness comes...

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

Source: Parade,...

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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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Sophia Loren: A woman's dress...

Sophia Loren: A woman's dress...

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the...

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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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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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Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do...

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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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Gilda Radner: It is so...

Gilda Radner: It is so...

It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We act to live,...

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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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Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,...

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Barbara Mikulski: I truly believe...

Barbara Mikulski: I truly believe...

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for...

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Princess Anne: I know my...

Princess Anne: I know my...

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Source: Speech on opening parliament,...

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Ninon de Lenclos: A man is...

Ninon de Lenclos: A man is...

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Source: In...

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Ouida: A cruel story...

Ouida: A cruel story...

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Source:...

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Gayl Jones: I learned to...

Gayl Jones: I learned to...

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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