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Shirley Conran: I make no...

Shirley Conran: I make no...

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if...

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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: His voice was...

Dorothy Parker: His voice was...

His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Source: Dusk before...

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Irene Thomas: Very few people...

Irene Thomas: Very few people...

Very few people seem to admit to coming from my family's class, which I suppose could be described as Upper Working....

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Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

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Helen Rowland: France may claim...

Helen Rowland: France may claim...

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Like many other...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Like many other...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years,...

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Peggy Noonan: Most people aren't...

Peggy Noonan: Most people aren't...

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves....

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Simone de Beauvoir: The day knowledge...

Simone de Beauvoir: The day knowledge...

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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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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Midge Decter: It might sound...

Midge Decter: It might sound...

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of...

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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.

Source: In Words of...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Source: In...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible...

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Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a...

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