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Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Surround of rainbows
Listen
The rain comes upon us
Restore us.


Source:...

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Grace Murray Hopper: You cannot manage...

Grace Murray Hopper: You cannot manage...

You cannot manage men into battle. You manage things; you lead people.

Source: In...

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. . . 'Priestess' implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on- Those who oppose...

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Gayl Jones: You change the...

Gayl Jones: You change the...

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the...

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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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Christina of Sweden: There is a...

Christina of Sweden: There is a...

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate...

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Margaret Mead: Some veil between...

Margaret Mead: Some veil between...

Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens...

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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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Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Source: In Bella!, by...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: When we bend...

Gail Pursell Elliott: When we bend...

When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting...

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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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Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Very dangerous things, theories.

Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona...

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Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Peace Pilgrim: My appointed work...

Peace Pilgrim: My appointed work...

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Source: In The...

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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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Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see...

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Emma Goldman: When we can't...

Emma Goldman: When we can't...

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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