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Rosa Luxemburg: Without general elections,...

Rosa Luxemburg: Without general elections,...

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion,...

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Rosa Luxemburg: The high stage...

Rosa Luxemburg: The high stage...

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Gail Hamilton: Christ made no...

Gail Hamilton: Christ made no...

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

Source: In...

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Peggy Noonan: I think miracles...

Peggy Noonan: I think miracles...

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we...

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Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Life is entirely too time-consuming.

Source:
-- Irene Peter, (Jan 0 0-0), US...

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Alice James: The success or...

Alice James: The success or...

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right...

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Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

[Blue jeans are] the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Source: In NY Times,...

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Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Source: Universal Press...

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Jessica Mitford: O death where...

Jessica Mitford: O death where...

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? Where, indeed? Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the...

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Andrea Dworkin: For a mother...

Andrea Dworkin: For a mother...

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a...

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Andrea Dworkin: No woman needs...

Andrea Dworkin: No woman needs...

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Source: Right-Wing Women, ch. 3...

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Rebecca West: I write books...

Rebecca West: I write books...

I write books to find out about things.

Source:
-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the...

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Julie Burchill: As with most...

Julie Burchill: As with most...

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more...

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Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

A great speech is literature.

Source: In Ms. Magazine, 1 Dec 1988.
-- Peggy...

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Dorothea Brande: By going over...

Dorothea Brande: By going over...

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The great rule...

Katharine Whitehorn: The great rule...

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Our awesome responsibility...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Our awesome responsibility...

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of...

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