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Katharine Hepburn: We are taught...

Katharine Hepburn: We are taught...

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame...

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Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

I was very sophisticated when I was 17. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was . . . I've been getting younger...

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George Eliot: For character too...

George Eliot: For character too...

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a...

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George Eliot: Few women, I...

George Eliot: Few women, I...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake...

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George Eliot: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

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Annie Dillard: How we spend...

Annie Dillard: How we spend...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Source: The Writing...

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Susan Sontag: The love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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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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Helen Rowland: To make a...

Helen Rowland: To make a...

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or...

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Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise...

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Emily Dickinson: How much can...

Emily Dickinson: How much can...

How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!


Source: There...

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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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Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...

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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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Jane Austen: Every man is...

Jane Austen: Every man is...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Source: In The...

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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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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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