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Molly Haskell: The propaganda arm...

Molly Haskell: The propaganda arm...

The propaganda arm of the American Dream machine -- Hollywood.

Source: From...

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Gail Sheehy: It is a...

Gail Sheehy: It is a...

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it...

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Sheila Ballantyne: You can always...

Sheila Ballantyne: You can always...

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through...

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Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around. Which is just one of my many trade...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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Marjorie Holmes: What feeling is...

Marjorie Holmes: What feeling is...

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter...

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Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is...

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Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Source: In...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an...

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Janet Flanner: The German passion...

Janet Flanner: The German passion...

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and...

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Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide...

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Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard...

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Dorothy Height: When you're a...

Dorothy Height: When you're a...

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to...

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Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior...

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