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Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site --of it --by Architect
Could not again...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words- /And never...

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Emily Dickinson: That it will...

Emily Dickinson: That it will...

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.


Source: poem no....

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Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Remorse --is Memory --awake --
Her Parties all astir --
A Presence of Departed Acts --
At window --and at...

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Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and...

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Miriam Beard: The results of...

Miriam Beard: The results of...

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Source: A History of...

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Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material...

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Nancy Friday: If a few...

Nancy Friday: If a few...

If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by as if in a dream, why not?

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Susan Sontag: Life is not...

Susan Sontag: Life is not...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...

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Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Source: New...

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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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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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June Jordan: Americans have begun...

June Jordan: Americans have begun...

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to...

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Helen Keller: Of all the...

Helen Keller: Of all the...

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a...

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Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his...

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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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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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Judith Crist: Movies suddenly became...

Judith Crist: Movies suddenly became...

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic. . .

Source:...

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