Quotes by 20th-century Women

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because "class instinct is subjective and spontaneous," the class instinct of the middle classes and "thus of intellectuals" must undergo a painful and "revolutionary" transformation in order to become oppositional—that is, in order to become aligned with the methodology of the oppressed.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

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.

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.

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

The English take breeding of horses and dogs more seriously than children. God forbid the wrong drop of blood should get into their Labrador. But their children marry everywhere.

Princess Michael of Kent

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

Dagmar Godowsky

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

Kathryn Kuhlman

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

Cathleen Schine

This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

About winning the third gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games

Milagros Cabral

So now she and I are friends - not with benefits, but memories.

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I don't involve myself in politics, my daily life is devoted to charity and social work. Apart from that I help my loved ones to live better, that's true. I never wanted to harm anyone. I deplore the fact that people have forgotten that for 23 years their lives improved greatly … and Tunisia became a modern country. I hope that my compatriots will render me justice by remembering the journey we undertook together. I hope that in the twilight of my life I will retain my honour.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Debra M. Ginsberg

Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Linda Fairstein

Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.

Alice Borchardt

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.