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Judith Martin: The dinner table...

Judith Martin: The dinner table...

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation,...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...

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Helen Keller: College isn't the...

Helen Keller: College isn't the...

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Source:
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27...

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Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals...

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Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Helen Gurley Brown: Nearly every glamorous,...

Helen Gurley Brown: Nearly every glamorous,...

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of...

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Judith Crist: Film criticism became...

Judith Crist: Film criticism became...

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society...

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Jessica Mitford: Gracious dying is...

Jessica Mitford: Gracious dying is...

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

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Jane Bryant Quinn: Even more than...

Jane Bryant Quinn: Even more than...

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men...

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Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Source: In An...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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Djuna Barnes: What is a...

Djuna Barnes: What is a...

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Source: Selected Works of Djuna...

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Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Ursula Le Guin: The one thing...

Ursula Le Guin: The one thing...

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she...

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Jean Stafford: . . ....

Jean Stafford: . . ....

. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...

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Annie Dillard: I am a...

Annie Dillard: I am a...

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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