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Marilu Henner: I definitely enjoy...

Marilu Henner: I definitely enjoy...

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

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Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!


Source: In The...

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Beth Henley: There are probably...

Beth Henley: There are probably...

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do?...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Frances Watkins Harper: What matters it...

Frances Watkins Harper: What matters it...

What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.

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Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.


Source: do not...

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Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.

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Marilyn French: To nourish children...

Marilyn French: To nourish children...

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or...

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Monica Baldwin: The Sussex lanes...

Monica Baldwin: The Sussex lanes...

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. . . . spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end . . . earth scents...

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Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...

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Alice James: Though I have...

Alice James: Though I have...

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

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Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle...

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Meg Greenfield: We are fickle...

Meg Greenfield: We are fickle...

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that...

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Meg Greenfield: There is such...

Meg Greenfield: There is such...

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always...

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Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.

Source:...

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Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be...

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Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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