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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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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget...

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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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Erma Bombeck: Never accept a...

Erma Bombeck: Never accept a...

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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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: 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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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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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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Helen Keller: Doubt and mistrust...

Helen Keller: Doubt and mistrust...

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind...

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Dorothy Parker: If I had...

Dorothy Parker: If I had...

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Source: At age...

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Dorothy Parker: Excuse my dust....

Dorothy Parker: Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...

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Dorothy Parker: There must be...

Dorothy Parker: There must be...

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...

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Dorothy Parker: This is on...

Dorothy Parker: This is on...

This is on me.

Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...

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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: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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Helen Rowland: When two people...

Helen Rowland: When two people...

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they...

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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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