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Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by...

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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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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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Vicki Baum: What I like...

Vicki Baum: What I like...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and...

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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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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Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly...

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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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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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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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Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Source: Letter, 20...

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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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Carry Nation: If you don't...

Carry Nation: If you don't...

If you don't do it, then the women of this state will do it . . . You refused me the vote and I had to use a...

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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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Olympia Brown: How natural that...

Olympia Brown: How natural that...

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which...

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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: Every political good...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Every political good...

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Source: The...

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