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Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

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Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of...

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Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Source:...

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Fran Lebowitz: Never judge a...

Fran Lebowitz: Never judge a...

Never judge a cover by its book.

Source: In Metropolitan Life.
-- Fran Lebowitz,...

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Meg Greenfield: There is such...

Meg Greenfield: There is such...

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always...

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Janet Flanner: Isadore [Duncan], who...

Janet Flanner: Isadore [Duncan], who...

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a...

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Erma Bombeck: It seemed rather...

Erma Bombeck: It seemed rather...

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of...

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Joan Konner: This life isn't...

Joan Konner: This life isn't...

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

Source: On Bellevue...

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Jane Howard: New links must...

Jane Howard: New links must...

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Source: In...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Source: Hour of Glory, Hour of...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: That's free enterprise,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing...

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Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Source: Becoming A Writer, 1934.
-- Dorothea...

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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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Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent...

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Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately,...

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Anna Sewell: We call them...

Anna Sewell: We call them...

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because...

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