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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In 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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Fran Lebowitz: Success didn't spoil...

Fran Lebowitz: Success didn't spoil...

Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable.

Source: In An Uncommon...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: People seem to...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: People seem to...

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable...

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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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Florence King: There's no national...

Florence King: There's no national...

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Alice Embree: The mass media...

Alice Embree: The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Source: In The Beacon Book...

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Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Since every death diminishes a little, we grieve -- not so much for the death as for...

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June Jordan: Americans have begun...

June Jordan: Americans have begun...

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to...

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Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases,...

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Jean Rhys: She could give...

Jean Rhys: She could give...

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But...

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Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...

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Judith Guest: He had led...

Judith Guest: He had led...

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...

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Judith Guest: People who keep...

Judith Guest: People who keep...

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Source:...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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