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Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the...

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Elizabeth Fry: Does Capital punishment...

Elizabeth Fry: Does Capital punishment...

Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the...

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Mary Daly: It is the...

Mary Daly: It is the...

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down error instead of establishing the...

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Carry Nation: You have put...

Carry Nation: You have put...

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell...

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Ingrid Bergman: Be yourself. The...

Ingrid Bergman: Be yourself. The...

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed....

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Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Source: In The...

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Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is...

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Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

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Martha Washington: . . ....

Martha Washington: . . ....

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

Source:...

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Sarah Winnemucca: Most of teachers...

Sarah Winnemucca: Most of teachers...

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary....

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Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

When you perform . . . you are out of yourself larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic....

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

[W]hen we were little girls sitting between those knees that served like locks, when they came with that brush or...

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Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an...

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Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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bell hooks: It is crucial...

bell hooks: It is crucial...

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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