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Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman...

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Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of...

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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Few books are...

Simone de Beauvoir: Few books are...

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to...

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Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...

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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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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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Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for...

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Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material...

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Susan L Taylor: Everything hinges on...

Susan L Taylor: Everything hinges on...

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

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Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...

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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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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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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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Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of...

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Kathryn Hulme: The dark-veiled silhouette...

Kathryn Hulme: The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette . . . that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Source: In The...

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Helen Keller: The best and...

Helen Keller: The best and...

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the...

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Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy,...

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