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Joan Collins: I've never yet...

Joan Collins: I've never yet...

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a...

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Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is...

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Cher: I can trust...

Cher: I can trust...

I can trust my friends. . . . These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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Imelda Marcos: I get so...

Imelda Marcos: I get so...

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so...

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Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy...

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Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have...

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Mari Evans: If we have...

Mari Evans: If we have...

If we have the Word let us
say it
If we have the Word let us
be it
If we have the Word let...

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Vera Brittain: I found in...

Vera Brittain: I found in...

I found in you a holy place apart,
Sublime endurance, God in man revealed
Where mending broken bodies slowly...

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Margaret Cho: I?m not going...

Margaret Cho: I?m not going...

I?m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I?m going to succeed as myself.

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Lucille Ball: The secret of...

Lucille Ball: The secret of...

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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Catherine Deneuve: Opportunities are often...

Catherine Deneuve: Opportunities are often...

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Source:...

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Judy Collins: Do what you...

Judy Collins: Do what you...

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Source:...

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Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Source: In Aretha...

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Alice Childress: Life is just...

Alice Childress: Life is just...

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave -- and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the...

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Alice Childress: Like snowflakes, the...

Alice Childress: Like snowflakes, the...

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and...

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Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or...

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Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in...

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Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . ....

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