Quotes by Women Columnists

Joan Collins

Arianna Huffington

Taslima Nasrin

Dorothy Dix

Cindy Adams

Sheilah Graham

Margarita Engle

Our religion doesn't give women any human dignity. Women are considered slaves... I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Joan Rivers talking to Joan Collins about her marriages:

Joan Rivers: Which husband was the best lover?
Joan Collins: Yours.

Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald's contemporaries couldn't bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

Sarah Churchwell

The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

Marriage is like a warm bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup... It is mothering without a net.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Women without men are usually nervous.... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

'The land of the free' is now the land of the free to be rude...

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Rachel Held Evans

My thoughts are like waffles—the first few don't look so good.

Marilyn vos Savant

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

Margarita Engle

While it is a misfortune to a woman never to be loved, it is a tragedy to her never to love.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Marjorie Holmes

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

Allison Pearson

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

Arianna Huffington