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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

I always looked ahead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Sheilah Graham: You can have...

Sheilah Graham: You can have...

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that...

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Marie Curie: I was taught...

Marie Curie: I was taught...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Source: In Words...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: If enough people...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: If enough people...

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and...

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Grace Speare: When you think...

Grace Speare: When you think...

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses...

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Mary Baker Eddy: To live and...

Mary Baker Eddy: To live and...

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of...

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Emma Goldman: When we can't...

Emma Goldman: When we can't...

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's...

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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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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to suggest that thought, which I had always before Iooked on as a cart-horse to be driven, whipped and...

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Ruth Benedict: I gambled on...

Ruth Benedict: I gambled on...

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

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Tammy Faye Bakker: There's times when...

Tammy Faye Bakker: There's times when...

There's times when I just have to quit thinking . . . and the only way I can quit thinking is by...

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Alice Paul: I always feel...

Alice Paul: I always feel...

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic...

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Margot Asquith: There are big...

Margot Asquith: There are big...

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Source:...

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Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Source: In Discerning God's...

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Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Source: In Time 3 Mar...

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Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Life's never quite interesting enough, somehow. You people who come to the movies know that. [in The...

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