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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without...

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Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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George Eliot: It is a...

George Eliot: It is a...

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

General notions are generally wrong.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Source: Ramona...

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Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating...

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Susan Sontag: What is most...

Susan Sontag: What is most...

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...

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Susan Sontag: The quality of...

Susan Sontag: The quality of...

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space,...

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Susan Sontag: The whole point...

Susan Sontag: The whole point...

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a...

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Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their...

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Susan B Anthony: The true Republic:...

Susan B Anthony: The true Republic:...

The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...

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Jane Austen: It does not...

Jane Austen: It does not...

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any...

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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

My definition [of a philosopher] is a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine...

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Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From...

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Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...

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Dorothy Parker: He and I...

Dorothy Parker: He and I...

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

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