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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.

Source: The Lovely Leave, in...

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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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Sheilah Graham: I won't be...

Sheilah Graham: I won't be...

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

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Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: It is sad...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: It is sad...

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any...

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Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and...

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Phyllis George: There's a fine...

Phyllis George: There's a fine...

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

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Gail Hamilton: Every person is...

Gail Hamilton: Every person is...

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell...

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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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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Source: Reflections...

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Helen Rowland: There are two...

Helen Rowland: There are two...

There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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