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Abigail Adams: If particular care...

Abigail Adams: If particular care...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they...

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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman...

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her...

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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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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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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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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that...

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Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to...

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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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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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Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

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Coretta Scott King: If American women...

Coretta Scott King: If American women...

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget...

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Dorothy Day: We have all...

Dorothy Day: We have all...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with...

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