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Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning...

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Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be...

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Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on...

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Ava Gardner: What's the point?...

Ava Gardner: What's the point?...

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Source: On not lying about...

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Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all...

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Renata Adler: In the strange...

Renata Adler: In the strange...

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound...

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Gail Hamilton: What's virtue in...

Gail Hamilton: What's virtue in...

What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.

Source: Both Sides.
-- Gail...

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Susan B Anthony: If all the...

Susan B Anthony: If all the...

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to...

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Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Source: Sisterhood Is...

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Jean Kerr: If you can...

Jean Kerr: If you can...

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the...

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Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Source:...

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Clementine Paddleford: We all have...

Clementine Paddleford: We all have...

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once...

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Dorothy Thompson: It is not...

Dorothy Thompson: It is not...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty...

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Renata Adler: There follows a...

Renata Adler: There follows a...

There follows a little obscenity here, a dask of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern...

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Helen Rowland: Oh yes, there...

Helen Rowland: Oh yes, there...

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives...

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Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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Helen Rowland: There's so much...

Helen Rowland: There's so much...

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest...

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Helen Keller: One should never...

Helen Keller: One should never...

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose...

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Dorothy Parker: Take care of...

Dorothy Parker: Take care of...

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Source:...

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