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Dorothy Parker: As artists they're...

Dorothy Parker: As artists they're...

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...

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Florence King: We want a...

Florence King: We want a...

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different...

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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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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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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in...

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Grace Paley: All that is...

Grace Paley: All that is...

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...

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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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Gail Hamilton: Whatever an author...

Gail Hamilton: Whatever an author...

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put...

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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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Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

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Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the...

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Dorothy Parker: As only New...

Dorothy Parker: As only New...

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...

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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 Rowland: Love, like chicken...

Helen Rowland: Love, like chicken...

Love, like chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an...

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