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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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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Robin Morgan: It isn't until...

Robin Morgan: It isn't until...

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a...

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Barbara Hepworth: One must be...

Barbara Hepworth: One must be...

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes...

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Debbi Fields: You do not...

Debbi Fields: You do not...

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Source: In Words of...

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Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Source: In...

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Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

Source: To...

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Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden...

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Katharine Graham: If one is...

Katharine Graham: If one is...

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Source: In The...

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Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Source:...

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Anne Bradstreet: If we had...

Anne Bradstreet: If we had...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so...

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Mae West: It's hard to...

Mae West: It's hard to...

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mae...

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Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just...

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Catherine the Great: I shall be...

Catherine the Great: I shall be...

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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Adrienne Rich: It's exhilarating...

Adrienne Rich: It's exhilarating...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and...

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Brigitte Bardot: A photograph can...

Brigitte Bardot: A photograph can...

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at...

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