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Helen Keller: Many persons have...

Helen Keller: Many persons have...

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but...

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Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.


Source: News Item, Enough...

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Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...

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Maya Angelou: My life has...

Maya Angelou: My life has...

My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost...

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Maya Angelou: There is a...

Maya Angelou: There is a...

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: Illness is the...

Susan Sontag: Illness is the...

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...

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Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale...

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Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...

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Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I don't say...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I don't say...

I don't say 'tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...

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George Eliot: Genius at first...

George Eliot: Genius at first...

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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George Eliot: Might, could, would...

George Eliot: Might, could, would...

Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Source: Mary Garth, in...

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George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...

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Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

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Jane Austen: One has not...

Jane Austen: One has not...

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the...

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George Eliot: Education was almost...

George Eliot: Education was almost...

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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