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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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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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Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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Katharine Whitehorn: A good listener...

Katharine Whitehorn: A good listener...

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore...

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Cynthia Heimel: All men are...

Cynthia Heimel: All men are...

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one...

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Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Since every death diminishes a little, we grieve -- not so much for the death as for...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...

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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: In this society,...

Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...

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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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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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Christiane Collange: When you belong...

Christiane Collange: When you belong...

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be...

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is...

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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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Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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