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Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Imagination, industry, and intelligence --the three I's --are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the...

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Mae West: Virtue has its...

Mae West: Virtue has its...

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Let woman then go on -- not asking as favour, but claiming as right, the removal of all the hindrances to her...

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Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. . . painted lips and nails, and the return...

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Martina Navratilova: The image of...

Martina Navratilova: The image of...

The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same...

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Billie Jean King: No one changes...

Billie Jean King: No one changes...

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

Source: San Francisco 'Chronicle', 8...

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Amelia Earhart: The more one...

Amelia Earhart: The more one...

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of...

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Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

The soul that knows [courage] not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of...

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Amelia Earhart: I want to...

Amelia Earhart: I want to...

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of...

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Peace Pilgrim: A pilgrim is...

Peace Pilgrim: A pilgrim is...

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Peace Pilgrim: Keep your feet...

Peace Pilgrim: Keep your feet...

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Source: In The...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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Sonia Johnson: Women cannot serve...

Sonia Johnson: Women cannot serve...

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in...

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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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Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Life?s lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality they are an exercise in fine...

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Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and...

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Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

They never die, who have the future in them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a...

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