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Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a...

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Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.


Source: 1875;...

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Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a...

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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: The only thing...

Tallulah Bankhead: The only thing...

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes,...

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Edith Evans: When a woman...

Edith Evans: When a woman...

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Source:...

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Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless...

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Katharine Graham: To love what...

Katharine Graham: To love what...

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

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Maria Callas: When music fails...

Maria Callas: When music fails...

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the...

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Simone Weil: A science which...

Simone Weil: A science which...

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Source: Gravity and...

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Anne Hutchinson: An oath, sir,...

Anne Hutchinson: An oath, sir,...

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Source: Spoken at...

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Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Clare Boothe Luce: Technological man can't...

Clare Boothe Luce: Technological man can't...

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a...

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Barbara Deming: A great many...

Barbara Deming: A great many...

A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of...

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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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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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Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Source:
-- Martina Navratilova,...

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Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Source: Novelists in Interview (ed....

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Carter Heyward: For god is...

Carter Heyward: For god is...

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: I take Him...

Tammy Faye Bakker: I take Him...

I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.

Source:...

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