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Gail Sheehy: With the only...

Gail Sheehy: With the only...

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of...

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Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have...

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Helen Rowland: Falling in love...

Helen Rowland: Falling in love...

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the...

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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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Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Source: Naked Truth &...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Source: In The...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Source: Reply to...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the...

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Muriel Spark: One should only...

Muriel Spark: One should only...

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their...

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Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Old folks are the nation.

Source:
-- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Source:...

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Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.

Source: In...

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