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Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum,...

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Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: The biggest problem...

Martha Wright Griffiths: The biggest problem...

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the...

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Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and...

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Marita Bonner: The one real...

Marita Bonner: The one real...

The one real thing that money buys -- Time.

Source: On Being Young -- A Woman --...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

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Carolyn Wells: A cynic is...

Carolyn Wells: A cynic is...

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Source:...

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Kate Chopin: There are some...

Kate Chopin: There are some...

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the...

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Phyllis McGinley: Praise is warming...

Phyllis McGinley: Praise is warming...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Knowledge increases in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Knowledge increases in...

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -- that is, the more we teach the more we...

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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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Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really...

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Sheilah Graham: You can have...

Sheilah Graham: You can have...

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that...

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Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can...

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Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Never wound a snake, kill it.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L....

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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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Dorothy Day: The best thing...

Dorothy Day: The best thing...

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Source: In...

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