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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Source: Referring to...

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Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and...

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Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.


Source:
-- Maya Angelou,...

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Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing...

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Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...

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Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Source:
-- Helen Rowland,...

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Helen Keller: I can feel...

Helen Keller: I can feel...

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

Source: Reader's Digest,...

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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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Helen Keller: The welfare of...

Helen Keller: The welfare of...

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility...

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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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Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful...

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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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Nancy Friday: Because society would...

Nancy Friday: Because society would...

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off...

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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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Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

Source: In Words of...

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