Quotes by 20th-century Women

If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

To the many reporters who had turned up at her lecture at Strathclyde University soon after her husband was jailed for perjury:

Good morning, and a special welcome to those of you who are new to the field of quantum solar energy conversion.

The combination of song, prayer, and poetry is a natural form of expression for many Navajo people. A person who is able to 'talk beautifully' is well thought of and considered wealthy...

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Trina Schart Hyman

Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

About his plans to run the London Marathon:

I've set myself a target. I'm going for less than eleven-and-a-half days.

People who refer to themselves as intellectuals are automatically commiting a social crime and, also, an error.

I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.

a question i have for whoever runs these sites—where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!

If the whiteness they pursue is cool and haughty and blank,
history is uncool, reaches out gawkily for affinities, asserts itself boldly,
threatens to mark, to break through and stain the primed white canvas
that is their life.
For, having primed it, they do not know where to start,
how to make a mark. They are alone in the world, a small new
island of whiteness. Or so they think; they do not know, or perhaps
they do not want to know, that the neighbourhood is full of people
like them. Thus they are steeped in its silence.

We are Afropolitans: not citizens, but Africans of the world.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

Cathie Pelletier

Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Your medicine is your poison is your medicine is your poison and there is no end but madness.

When anything becomes the fashion, that's the time to put a bomb under it.

Joan Littlewood

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Dagmar Godowsky

I have been hearing for years and years about how the financial services sector pays such exorbitant wages because the people who work there are so immensely talented that they are cheap at $50 million a year. I never particularly bought that line before. But I never imagined that all those Masters of the Universe would do quite this badly. If we had paid them $50 million a year to go far, far away and leave our financial system alone, it would have been a bargain.

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.