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Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Source: In Webster's...

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Carol Burnett: When someone who...

Carol Burnett: When someone who...

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always a big breakthrough or a radical...

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Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Source: In...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Source:...

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Florence King: Time has lost...

Florence King: Time has lost...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...

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Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Source: In Words of...

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Christiane Collange: How many women...

Christiane Collange: How many women...

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking...

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Christiane Collange: We all have...

Christiane Collange: We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always...

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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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Belle Livingstone: That winter two...

Belle Livingstone: That winter two...

That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more...

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Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

God, Himself, is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.

Source: In...

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Helen Keller: There is no...

Helen Keller: There is no...

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among...

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Dorothy Parker: This play John...

Dorothy Parker: This play John...

This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening...

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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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