- "Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer." Ann Landers
- "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." Mother Teresa
- "My motto-sans limites." Isadora Duncan
- "A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it." Lila Acheson Wallace
- "I've been a woman for a little over 50 years, and have gotten over my initial astonishment." Nadia Boulanger (when asked how she felt about being the first female Boston Symphony conductor)
- "There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking." Mary Lowry
- "I don't mind if you pick up items from my coffee table to look at them...just please be sure to put them back on the same dust circle." Jane R. Peppard
- __ "A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive." Ladybird Johnson__
- "If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan." Nora Ephron
- "Your thorns are the best part of you." Marianne Moore
- "When men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane." Peggy Noonan
- "I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?" Liz Carpenter
- "I wasn't lucky. I deserved it." Margaret Thatcher
- "I love being single. It's almost like being rich." Sue Grafton
- "I read a self-help book about a woman who cured her malignant liver tumor with positive thinking. I don't have enough happy thoughts to get rid of a zit." Janet Rosen
- "Have you been in therapy? It's like a really easy game show where the correct answer to every question is: 'Because of my mother.'" Robin Greenspan
- "Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out." Adrienne Gusoff
- "The next best thing to winning is losing. At least you've been in the race." Nellie Hershey Smith
- "Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce." Natalie Goldberg
- "The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence." Indira Gandhi
- "Just as women find uncomfortable the negative images of themselves found in male literature, so men find it difficult to appreciate accusations that they occupy the role of the oppressor." Nancy Walker
- "Old boyfriends, many women report, make excellent cat-sitters." Erika Ritter
- "If you love a man, set him free. If he comes back, it means he forgot his sandwiches." Jasmine Birties
- "If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum." Fran Lebowitz
- "There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco Chanel
- "The body says what words cannot." Martha Graham
- "If you can't make up your mind, 'What the hell' is usually the right answer." Ellen Reid Smith
- "A mistake is simply doing things another way." Katherine Graham
- "You have no idea how many men I've had to sleep with to win this." Kim Cattrall (on winning a Golden Globe for SATC)
- "American women have no idea what they want, but we expect men to give it to us anyway." Cynthia Heimal
- "Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste." Patricia Hempl
- "You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain." Bette Davis
- "It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people, and quoted by the foolish." Jill Johnston
- "I'm at the age where I unlearn something new every day." Janice Heiss
- "When I run marathons, my goal isn't to win or to place, or even to finish it under a certain time. It's to catch that cute guy with the nice butt in the little shorts running in front of me." Anna Jantsuka
- "A closed mind is a dying mind." Edna Ferber
- "If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." Kathleen Norris
- "I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not." Fannie Hurst
- "I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I no longer have it." Colette
- "I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street." Virginia Woolf
- "Happiness isn't a goal, it's a by-product." Eleanor Roosevelt
- "It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." Queen Christina
- "It bothers me that the world revolves around married people with children, so I've come up with a politically correct term for 'single with no kids': happy." Danielle Broussard
- "When I got married my feminist friends went mad. One sniffed, 'Are you going to take your husband's name?' I said, 'No because I don't think 'Dave' suits me very much." Jo Brand
- "Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do." Sarah Caldwell
- "True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway." Edna Buchanan
- "I'd like to live a long enough to see people not be surprised by the fact that a woman is succeeded in something." Oveta Culp Hobby
- "I just got junk mail from this organization that wants me to save the forest. I sent them back a letter saying, 'Stop sending me junk mail and save the forest yourself.'" Linda Herskovic
- "I don't buy temporary insanity as a murder defense. Breaking into someone's home and ironing all their clothes is temporary insanity." Sue Kolinsky
- "You should always believe all you read in newspapers, as this makes them more interesting." Rose Macaulay
- "The ability to embrace my ordinariness makes me feel extraordinary." Jane Kennon
- "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." Anne Badstreet
- "Most people spend their lives going to bed when they are not sleepy and getting up when they are." Cindy Adams
- "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." Simone Weil
- "Some of my best friends are books." Doris Lackey
- "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I"m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball
- "Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life." Ayn Rand
- "I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis." Cathy Ladman
- "If a woman is really injured by her marriage she should sue under the employer liability act. She claim damages, not alimony." Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "The world is wide, and I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." Frances Willard
- "I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies." Jennifer Anistion
- "A few days on your feet and we'll soon have you back in bed." Christine Keeler (prostitute quoting her doctor)
- "I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move." Rosa Parks
- "Enemies are so stimulating." Katherine Hepburn
- "If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed." E. Jean Carroll
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