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Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be.

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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a...

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Joan Rivers: If God wanted...

Joan Rivers: If God wanted...

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Source: From a...

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George Eliot: It's but little...

George Eliot: It's but little...

It's but little good you'll do awatering the last year's crop.

Source: Adam...

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Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar...

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Amy Tan: In America nobody...

Amy Tan: In America nobody...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Amy Tan: How can you...

Amy Tan: How can you...

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes...

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Judy Blume: Are you there...

Judy Blume: Are you there...

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I...

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Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are...

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Clara Barton: This conflict is...

Clara Barton: This conflict is...

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If...

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Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...

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Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Jean Kerr: I feel about...

Jean Kerr: I feel about...

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to...

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Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

Source: Lesbian...

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Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist so long as she manages to also be a good wife,...

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