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Joan Baez: Only you and...

Joan Baez: Only you and...

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in...

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Jane Wagner: I made some...

Jane Wagner: I made some...

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I guess what...

Ella Fitzgerald: I guess what...

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is...

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Marilu Henner: I definitely enjoy...

Marilu Henner: I definitely enjoy...

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

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Raquel Welch: The mind can...

Raquel Welch: The mind can...

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Source: In Colombo's Hollywood, by J.R....

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Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to...

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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Donna Reed: If nuclear power...

Donna Reed: If nuclear power...

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of...

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Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are...

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Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people...

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Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

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Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life;...

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Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force...

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Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we...

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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 Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Dorothy Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them....

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Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage...

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