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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Source:
-- Anna...

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Rebecca West: The main difference...

Rebecca West: The main difference...

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Source: In The...

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Angelina Grimke: If a law...

Angelina Grimke: If a law...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course...

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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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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Freda Adler: If one would...

Freda Adler: If one would...

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of virtue and vice...

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Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

In their quest for rights they [women] have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs, rather than their achievements...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a...

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Corazon Aquino: They came out...

Corazon Aquino: They came out...

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Differences challenge assumptions.

Source: Women's Reality, 1981.
-- Anne Wilson...

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Bella Abzug: All of the...

Bella Abzug: All of the...

All of the men on my staff can type.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Search for the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Search for the...

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an...

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Edith Hamilton: Great art is...

Edith Hamilton: Great art is...

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that...

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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Mother Teresa: There should be...

Mother Teresa: There should be...

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean...

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Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's...

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Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no color.

Source: In I Dream a World.
-- Leontyne Price,...

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