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Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get...

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Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means...

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Elizabeth I: I thank God...

Elizabeth I: I thank God...

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live...

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M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ....

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Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the lives...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

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Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches...

Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches...

Trust your hunches . . . Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by...

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Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality...

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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: Money speaks, but...

Andrea Dworkin: Money speaks, but...

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Source: Pornography, ch. 1...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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Marie Curie: Life is not...

Marie Curie: Life is not...

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We...

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Anne Frank: Everyone has inside...

Anne Frank: Everyone has inside...

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all;...

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Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values...

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