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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Widow is a...

Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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Auguste Renoir: In painting, as...

Auguste Renoir: In painting, as...

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably...

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John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow.


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After my husband...

After my husband...

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the...

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Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Source: In...

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Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard...

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The groundhog is...

The groundhog is...

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

Source:...

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Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.


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Elizabeth Blackwell: I must have...

Elizabeth Blackwell: I must have...

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad...

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Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not Am I really that oppressed? but Am I really that...

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Orison Swett Marden: It is like...

Orison Swett Marden: It is like...

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

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Emile M Cioran: The history of...

Emile M Cioran: The history of...

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Source: In...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: It is the...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: It is the...

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear...

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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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Titus Maccius Plautus: I much prefer...

Titus Maccius Plautus: I much prefer...

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Source: In...

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Thomas Malthus: Virtue: to resist...

Thomas Malthus: Virtue: to resist...

Virtue: to resist all temptation to evil.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary...

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Alan Bennett: Why is it...

Alan Bennett: Why is it...

Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?

Source: Forty Years...

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