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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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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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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Jessamyn West: It is easy...

Jessamyn West: It is easy...

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your...

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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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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
--...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Barbara Jordan: What the people...

Barbara Jordan: What the people...

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the...

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Bernadette Devlin: Among the best...

Bernadette Devlin: Among the best...

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to...

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Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality,...

Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality,...

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run away from.

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Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Peace Pilgrim: This is the...

Peace Pilgrim: This is the...

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with...

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Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

I'm fulfilled in what I do. . . I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life --...

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Rosa Parks: It was not...

Rosa Parks: It was not...

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his...

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Mary Astell: . . ....

Mary Astell: . . ....

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another...

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Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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