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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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Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

Source:...

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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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Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Gail Sheehy: Phases of the...

Gail Sheehy: Phases of the...

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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Anne Frank: Laziness may appear...

Anne Frank: Laziness may appear...

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Source: The Diary of a...

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Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be...

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Martha Gellhorn: People may correctly...

Martha Gellhorn: People may correctly...

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his...

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Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jane Addams: The new growth...

Jane Addams: The new growth...

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still...

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or open a new heaven to the...

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Virginia Woolf: It is in...

Virginia Woolf: It is in...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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