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Abigail Adams: . . ....

Abigail Adams: . . ....

. . . a habit the pleasure of which increases with practice, but becomes more urksome with...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Source: Referring to her husband. As I...

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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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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Vicki Baum: A woman who...

Vicki Baum: A woman who...

A woman who is loved always has success.

Source: Grand Hotel, 1929.
-- Vicki...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Source: In The...

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Faith Popcorn: Just before consumers...

Faith Popcorn: Just before consumers...

Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

Source: In...

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Margot Fonteyn: Great artists are...

Margot Fonteyn: Great artists are...

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in...

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Marilyn Horne: I must absorb...

Marilyn Horne: I must absorb...

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other...

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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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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Pat Nixon: Public life is...

Pat Nixon: Public life is...

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the...

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Yoko Ono: I believe in...

Yoko Ono: I believe in...

I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then...

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Hazel Scott: I've always known...

Hazel Scott: I've always known...

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not...

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Joanna Baillie: Thinks't thou there...

Joanna Baillie: Thinks't thou there...

Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world
But those that slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the...

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Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is...

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