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Kathe Kollwitz: No longer diverted...

Kathe Kollwitz: No longer diverted...

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Source: Diaries...

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Faith Popcorn: Send me out...

Faith Popcorn: Send me out...

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

Source: The Popcorn...

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Amy Vanderbilt: Good manners have...

Amy Vanderbilt: Good manners have...

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit...

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Amy Vanderbilt: Ceremony is-really a...

Amy Vanderbilt: Ceremony is-really a...

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social...

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Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in...

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Grace Murray Hopper: A ship in...

Grace Murray Hopper: A ship in...

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Source: In Mothers...

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Emma Hart Willard: Genuine learning has...

Emma Hart Willard: Genuine learning has...

Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow added charm on...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Source: In...

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Shirley Hufstedler: If you play...

Shirley Hufstedler: If you play...

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

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Andrea Dworkin: Women's fashion is...

Andrea Dworkin: Women's fashion is...

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Source:...

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Andrea Dworkin: I love, cherish,...

Andrea Dworkin: I love, cherish,...

I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct...

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Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The formula for...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The formula for...

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

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Beryl Markham: I could never...

Beryl Markham: I could never...

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your...

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Amelia Earhart: Adventure is worthwhile...

Amelia Earhart: Adventure is worthwhile...

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Source: From a collection of quotations found on...

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Amelia Earhart: There are two...

Amelia Earhart: There are two...

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Source: 20...

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