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Peggy Noonan: If you join...

Peggy Noonan: If you join...

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Source: Naked Truth...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Source:...

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Ellen Key: At every step...

Ellen Key: At every step...

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from...

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Alice James: Though I have...

Alice James: Though I have...

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

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Freya Stark: Love of learning...

Freya Stark: Love of learning...

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one...

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Jean Kerr: A lawyer is...

Jean Kerr: A lawyer is...

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job...

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Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger...

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Kate Millett: Because of our...

Kate Millett: Because of our...

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly...

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Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can...

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Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

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Florence King: We wallow in...

Florence King: We wallow in...

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I am all...

Katharine Whitehorn: I am all...

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the...

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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Anita Brookner: There are moments...

Anita Brookner: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on...

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Kate Chopin: To be an...

Kate Chopin: To be an...

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts -- absolute gifts -- which have been acquired by one's own...

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Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural...

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Judith Martin: If you can't...

Judith Martin: If you can't...

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Source: Miss Manners.
-- Judith Martin,...

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Rebecca West: There is no...

Rebecca West: There is no...

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital...

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Doris Lessing: That is what...

Doris Lessing: That is what...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new...

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