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Anouk Aimee: What helps me...

Anouk Aimee: What helps me...

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

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Jacqueline Bisset: Character contributes to...

Jacqueline Bisset: Character contributes to...

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Source:...

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Ingrid Bergman: Success is getting...

Ingrid Bergman: Success is getting...

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

Source: In The...

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Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the...

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May Sarton: Anyone who is...

May Sarton: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.

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Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Be careful what...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Be careful what...

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Source: Advice to graduates, Buena Vista...

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Adelaide A Proctor: One by one...

Adelaide A Proctor: One by one...

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Source: In...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Singing has always...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Singing has always...

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think...

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Joyce A Myers: A #2 pencil...

Joyce A Myers: A #2 pencil...

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Est?e Lauder: When you stop...

Est?e Lauder: When you stop...

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost...

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Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well,...

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Martha Washington: I live a...

Martha Washington: I live a...

I live a very dull life here . . . indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything...

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Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...

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Jane Harrison: A young and...

Jane Harrison: A young and...

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will . . . . It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other...

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Mary Lyon: There is nothing...

Mary Lyon: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

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Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . ....

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Marie Anne du Deffand: God is not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: God is not...

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in...

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