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Kate Chopin: The years that...

Kate Chopin: The years that...

The years that are gone seem like dreams -- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming -- but to wake up and find -- oh!...

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Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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Lucy Stone: I know not...

Lucy Stone: I know not...

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not...

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Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

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Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Source: In...

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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 Hutchinson: What from the...

Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

What from the Church at Boston? I know no such church, neither will I own it. Call it the whore and strumpet of...

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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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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: 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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Emma Goldman: No one has...

Emma Goldman: No one has...

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The...

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Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

[H]uman beings cannot be willed and molded into nonexistence.

Source: In Words of...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire --...

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Source: Toward a Recognition of...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

There are. . . intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has...

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Barbara Bush: You have to...

Barbara Bush: You have to...

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

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Queen Victoria: We are not...

Queen Victoria: We are not...

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Source:...

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Fanny Crosby: When I get...

Fanny Crosby: When I get...

When I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my...

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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance<br>Attaineth to...

St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God...

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