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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

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Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the...

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M F K Fisher: In America we...

M F K Fisher: In America we...

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation...

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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Peace Pilgrim: As I lived...

Peace Pilgrim: As I lived...

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

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Peace Pilgrim: Many people profess...

Peace Pilgrim: Many people profess...

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant...

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Betty Friedan: It is easier...

Betty Friedan: It is easier...

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

It seems to me that the effect of having other interests beyond those exclusively domestic works well. The more one...

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Mignon McLaughlin: Most of us...

Mignon McLaughlin: Most of us...

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Source: In...

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Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Martha Washington: I am still...

Martha Washington: I am still...

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. . .

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Invest in the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Invest in the...

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Source: In...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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Alice Paul: It is better,...

Alice Paul: It is better,...

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense...

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Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of...

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