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Betty Carter: If you're sitting...

Betty Carter: If you're sitting...

If you're sitting in that audience ready to figllt me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting...

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Tina Turner: I never said...

Tina Turner: I never said...

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get...

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Oprah Winfrey: If you want...

Oprah Winfrey: If you want...

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

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Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind...

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Maya Ying Lin: To fly we...

Maya Ying Lin: To fly we...

To fly we have to have resistance.

Source:
-- Maya Ying Lin, (Oct 5 1959-____),...

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Margot Fonteyn: The one important...

Margot Fonteyn: The one important...

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking...

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Nadia Boulanger: A great work...

Nadia Boulanger: A great work...

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Source: In...

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Sandra Bernhard: If you close...

Sandra Bernhard: If you close...

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa...

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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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

Jeannette Rankin: Men and women...

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

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Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

To love the one who loves you,
To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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Andrea Dworkin: You think intercourse...

Andrea Dworkin: You think intercourse...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are...

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Jessica Mitford: It is somehow...

Jessica Mitford: It is somehow...

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of...

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Marya Mannes: It's never what...

Marya Mannes: It's never what...

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Dix: So many people...

Dorothy Dix: So many people...

So many people think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, the remedy is worse than the...

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Helen Rowland: A husband is...

Helen Rowland: A husband is...

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Source: A...

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Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Source: New...

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