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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...

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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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Emily Dickinson: I like a...

Emily Dickinson: I like a...

I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true --
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe...

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Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life...

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Dorothy Parker: If you're going...

Dorothy Parker: If you're going...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...

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Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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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 ideology of...

Susan Sontag: The ideology of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...

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Jane Austen: From this day...

Jane Austen: From this day...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not...

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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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Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't...

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Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also...

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Fran Lebowitz: Don't bother discussing...

Fran Lebowitz: Don't bother discussing...

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

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Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of...

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Helen Keller: The hands of...

Helen Keller: The hands of...

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so...

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Dorothy Parker: I require only...

Dorothy Parker: I require only...

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

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Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten...

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George Eliot: The beginning of...

George Eliot: The beginning of...

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our...

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