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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Three failures denote...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Three failures denote...

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

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Christina Baldwin: Change is the...

Christina Baldwin: Change is the...

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Source: One...

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Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim --. ....

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Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the...

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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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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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M F K Fisher: Sharing food with...

M F K Fisher: Sharing food with...

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in...

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Lillian Carter: I know folks...

Lillian Carter: I know folks...

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: During much of...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: During much of...

During much of my life I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am...

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Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Source: In The...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The truest greatness...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The truest greatness...

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Source:...

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Sarah Siddons: . . ....

Sarah Siddons: . . ....

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits...

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Margaret Cho: If we have...

Margaret Cho: If we have...

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of...

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Lucille Ball: Use a make-up...

Lucille Ball: Use a make-up...

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork...

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Hazel Scott: There's a time...

Hazel Scott: There's a time...

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the...

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Whitney Houston: God gave me...

Whitney Houston: God gave me...

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

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Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that,...

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