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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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Coretta Scott King: The more visible...

Coretta Scott King: The more visible...

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties...

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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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Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The same energy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The same energy...

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er...

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Phyllis McGinley: A lady is...

Phyllis McGinley: A lady is...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe,
She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,
She can use her...

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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.

Source: In Wisdom...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely...

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Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Edith Clara Summerskill: I learned that...

Edith Clara Summerskill: I learned that...

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the...

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Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all...

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Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Source: An...

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Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're...

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Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and...

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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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