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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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: We are all...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: We are all...

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded...

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Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his...

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Betty Friedan: Aging is not...

Betty Friedan: Aging is not...

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Source: In...

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Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

A commitment to sexual equality with males. . . is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that...

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Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the...

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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Source: In Words...

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Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the...

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Lucretia Mott: The world has...

Lucretia Mott: The world has...

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains...

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Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a...

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Althea Gibson: I think I've...

Althea Gibson: I think I've...

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea...

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Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to...

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