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Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.

Source: On lunching with James...

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Judith Martin: When you're in...

Judith Martin: When you're in...

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There is no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There is no...

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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Julie Burchill: Fame is no...

Julie Burchill: Fame is no...

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. . . suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than...

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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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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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Helen Gurley Brown: After you're older,...

Helen Gurley Brown: After you're older,...

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and...

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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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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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Carol Burnett: I think we're...

Carol Burnett: I think we're...

I think we're here for each other.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Coco Chanel: Innovation! One...

Coco Chanel: Innovation! One...

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Source:...

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Beverly Sills: There is a...

Beverly Sills: There is a...

There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

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Marian Anderson: The minute a...

Marian Anderson: The minute a...

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others...

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Cher: I won't be...

Cher: I won't be...

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old...

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Susan Sarandon: I'm looking forward...

Susan Sarandon: I'm looking forward...

I'm looking forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less the issue and what you are is the...

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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Alice Duer Miller: When a woman...

Alice Duer Miller: When a woman...

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much
All of a sudden drops out of touch,
Is always busy and never...

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Caroline Sheridan Norton: God made all...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: God made all...

God made all pleasures innocent.

Source: The Lady of LaGaraye, Pt. 1, 1862.
--...

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Caroline Sheridan Norton: A soldier of...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: A soldier of...

A soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers --
There was a lack of woman's nursing,
There was dearth of woman's...

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Diane Ackerman: I don't want...

Diane Ackerman: I don't want...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the...

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