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Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...

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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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Rebecca Harding Davis: Nowhere in this...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Nowhere in this...

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...

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Helen Keller: What a blind...

Helen Keller: What a blind...

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Source:
-- Helen...

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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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Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

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Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.


Source: 1868; The Poems...

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Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...

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Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Source: The Dick Cavett...

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Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Be plain in...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Be plain in...

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet.

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George Eliot: Opposition may become...

George Eliot: Opposition may become...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Source:...

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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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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: People commonly educate...

Mary Wortley Montagu: People commonly educate...

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful,...

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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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Susan Sontag: The love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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Susan B Anthony: Resolved, that the...

Susan B Anthony: Resolved, that the...

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the...

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Dorothy Parker: I can't write...

Dorothy Parker: I can't write...

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...

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