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Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...

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Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...

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Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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Dorothy Parker: Work is the...

Dorothy Parker: Work is the...

Work is the province of cattle.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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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: Good work, Mary....

Dorothy Parker: Good work, Mary....

Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Source: Telegram to a friend who...

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Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Outspoken by whom?

Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
--...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with...

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Susan B Anthony: I can see...

Susan B Anthony: I can see...

I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...

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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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Cher: If you really...

Cher: If you really...

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must...

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Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other...

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Jane Seymour: You have to...

Jane Seymour: You have to...

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life -- so that...

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Emily Dickinson: To live is...

Emily Dickinson: To live is...

To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.


Source: The Complete...

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Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies.


Source: 1868;...

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Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness --a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of...

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Emily Dickinson: To see the...

Emily Dickinson: To see the...

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --


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Judith Jamison: I remember always...

Judith Jamison: I remember always...

I remember always the need to know myself, because if I avoid know ing who I am deep inside, then I can't express what...

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