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Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

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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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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: The American nation,...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: The American nation,...

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of...

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Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

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Dorothy Parker: She was always...

Dorothy Parker: She was always...

She was always pleased to have him come and
never sorry to see him go.


Source:...

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Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts -- spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and...

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Patricia Fripp: You are no...

Patricia Fripp: You are no...

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how...

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Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

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Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life --...

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Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up,...

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Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Source: Her motto; in The Concise Columbia...

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Coretta Scott King: There is a...

Coretta Scott King: There is a...

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be...

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Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

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Kate Millett: Many women do...

Kate Millett: Many women do...

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: Pray for the...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: Pray for the...

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Source: In Mother Jones: The...

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Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

True friendship is never serene.

Source: 10 Sep 1671, Letters of Madame de Sevigne...

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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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Robin Morgan: If I had...

Robin Morgan: If I had...

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the...

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