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Helen Keller: How reconcile this...

Helen Keller: How reconcile this...

How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of...

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Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no...

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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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Sylvia Pankhurst: . . ....

Sylvia Pankhurst: . . ....

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely...

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Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.


Source:
-- Maya Angelou,...

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Susan Sontag: In most modern...

Susan Sontag: In most modern...

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...

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Alice James: You must remember...

Alice James: You must remember...

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is...

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Jean Kerr: Some people have...

Jean Kerr: Some people have...

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so...

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Fran Lebowitz: . . .to...

Fran Lebowitz: . . .to...

. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a...

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Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get...

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Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense --the starkest Madness...

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Maria Callas: When my enemies...

Maria Callas: When my enemies...

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Source: In Maria Callas,...

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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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Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite...

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Caroline Sheridan Norton: My beautiful, my...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: My beautiful, my...

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery...

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Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

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Vera Brittain: There is an...

Vera Brittain: There is an...

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no...

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Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they...

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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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