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Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Source: Face Toward the...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I...

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Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words- /And never...

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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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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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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: They say God...

Emily Dickinson: They say God...

They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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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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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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Nancy Friday: It was the...

Nancy Friday: It was the...

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that...

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Helen Keller: My darkness has...

Helen Keller: My darkness has...

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and...

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Helen Keller: Security is mostly...

Helen Keller: Security is mostly...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature . . . Life is either a daring adventure or...

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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: Those who have...

Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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