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Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for...

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Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot...

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Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly...

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Erma Bombeck: My mind works...

Erma Bombeck: My mind works...

My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Dorothy Dix: It is only...

Dorothy Dix: It is only...

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little...

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Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a...

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Delphine de Girardin: Business is other...

Delphine de Girardin: Business is other...

Business is other people's money.

Source: Marguerite, I 8 52.
-- Delphine de...

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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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Elizabeth Fishel: A sister is...

Elizabeth Fishel: A sister is...

A sister is both your mirror -- and your opposite.

Source: People Magazine, 2 Jun...

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Julie Burchill: A good part...

Julie Burchill: A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to...

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Marian Anderson: The minute a...

Marian Anderson: The minute a...

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others...

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Susan RoAne: The time spent...

Susan RoAne: The time spent...

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom...

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Margot Fonteyn: Life forms illogical...

Margot Fonteyn: Life forms illogical...

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who...

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Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Let's not quibble!...

Tallulah Bankhead: Let's not quibble!...

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose...

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Roseanne Barr: Experts say you...

Roseanne Barr: Experts say you...

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling...

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Carol Burnett: I think we're...

Carol Burnett: I think we're...

I think we're here for each other.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Emily Dickinson: Where thou art,...

Emily Dickinson: Where thou art,...

Where thou art, that is home.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Mari Evans: I'm<br>gonna spread out<br>over...

Mari Evans: I'm
gonna spread out
over...

I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the...

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