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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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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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Julie Burchill: Tears are sometimes...

Julie Burchill: Tears are sometimes...

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely...

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Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...

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Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

[Youngsters] are nurtured from infancy on a Dick-and-Jane literary and artistic level; and the cultural drought, as...

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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: 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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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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Rita Dove: If only the...

Rita Dove: If only the...

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time...

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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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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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Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes atappin.

Source: In The...

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Nellie Melba: One of the...

Nellie Melba: One of the...

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Source: In The...

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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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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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Emily Dickinson: Faith --is the...

Emily Dickinson: Faith --is the...

Faith --is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I never felt...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: I never felt...

I never felt I left the stage.

Source: On being a politician; Center Stage,...

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George Eliot: To manage men,...

George Eliot: To manage men,...

To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Source: In...

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