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Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the...

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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We are all...

We are all...

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its...

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Size isn't everything....

Size isn't everything....

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

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Not Seeing is...

Not Seeing is...

Not Seeing is Believing, you ninny, but Believing is Seeing. For modern art has become completely literary: the...

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Never grow a...

Never grow a...

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where a backbone ought to be.

Source: In Words of...

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[Chowder] breathes reassurance....

[Chowder] breathes reassurance....

[Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Source: In Right for the...

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The proper memory...

The proper memory...

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows when to remember and when to forget.

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It would be...

It would be...

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . ....

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Our culture peculiarly...

Our culture peculiarly...

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and...

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The test of...

The test of...

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Source:...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise...

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It is possible...

It is possible...

It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the...

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I want to...

I want to...

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Source: In Webster's...

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Seeing unhappiness in...

Seeing unhappiness in...

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a...

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Inventive man has...

Inventive man has...

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the...

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Every man has...

Every man has...

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for...

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All wish to...

All wish to...

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the...

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William Congreve is...

William Congreve is...

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his...

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