(801 quotes found)
“Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the marriage”
Melissa Sadoff
“You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses”
Sally Jessy Raphael
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?”
Rita Mae Brown
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.”
Buddha
“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
“She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.”
Mavis Gallant
“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau