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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: Parting is all...

Emily Dickinson: Parting is all...

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.


Source: poem no....

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Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...

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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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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

I believe in art that conceals art.

Source: Starting From Scratch/ 1988
-- Rita...

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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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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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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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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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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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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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: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...

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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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Helen Rowland: The honeymoon is...

Helen Rowland: The honeymoon is...

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our...

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Helen Rowland: Never trust a...

Helen Rowland: Never trust a...

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Source: The Rubaiyat of a...

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Susan Sontag: Anything in history...

Susan Sontag: Anything in history...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward...

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