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Rachel Field: Doorbells are like...

Rachel Field: Doorbells are like...

Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair --
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...

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Edna O'Brien: There is something...

Edna O'Brien: There is something...

There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.

Source: The...

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Barbara Walters: A great many...

Barbara Walters: A great many...

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Source:...

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Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

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Dorothy Height: When you're a...

Dorothy Height: When you're a...

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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Ellen Key: When one paints...

Ellen Key: When one paints...

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Source: The...

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Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...

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Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...

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Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution...

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Anna Quindlen: For most of...

Anna Quindlen: For most of...

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like...

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Renata Adler: Idle people are...

Renata Adler: Idle people are...

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and...

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Alice Embree: The message of...

Alice Embree: The message of...

The message of the media is the commercial.

Source: Media Images 1: Madison Avenue...

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Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he...

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Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their...

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