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Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that...

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Althea Gibson: I think I've...

Althea Gibson: I think I've...

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to...

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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

I would place al1 the Indians of Nevada on ships in our harbor, take them to New York and land them there as...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the...

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Mary Caroline Richards: All arts we...

Mary Caroline Richards: All arts we...

All arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Source: In The...

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Anna Julia Cooper: It these broken...

Anna Julia Cooper: It these broken...

It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's...

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Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

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Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Source: In And I Quote, by...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: We are in...

Jill Ruckelshaus: We are in...

We are in for a very, very long haul. . . . I am asking for everything you have to give. We will never give up. ....

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: . . ....

Elizabeth Gould Davis: . . ....

. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

Tammy Faye Bakker: You don't have...

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

Source: In Newsweek, 8 Jun...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The attitude and...

Beatrice Hinkle: The attitude and...

The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in...

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Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this...

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Joyce Brothers: Before your dreams...

Joyce Brothers: Before your dreams...

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

Source: In The...

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