Quotes by Women Editors

Anna Wintour

Victoria Woodhull

Sarah Josepha Hale

Margaret Wise Brown

Diana Vreeland

Alexa Chung

Harriet Monroe

I have always fought for ideas — until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret Caroline Anderson

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

People are much too concerned about having good taste.… It's not a character flaw if you don't have good taste.

Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.

My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We're hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely interesting ancient times.
I like this idea. It encourages us to be earnest and ingenious and brave, as befits ancestral peoples; but keeps us from deciding that because we don't know all the answers, they must be unknowable and thus unprofitable to pursue.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Anybody seen in a bus over the age of thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

A city of strivers pushing forward from immigrant enclaves.

Grace Mirabella

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Virginia Postrel

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

Edna Woolman Chase

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

Elizabeth Towne

A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story is the moment we cease to guard our sanctuary, and our entire foundation for success crumbles into ashes. A relationship that leads us closer to our Prince and carefully protects our inner sanctuary is the key to discovering romance as it was truly intended to be...a little taste of heaven on earth.

The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

Susan L. Taylor

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Alice Dalgliesh

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.

Elaine A. Cannon

In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

Dorothea Brande

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray...

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Goodnight stars Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere

Margaret Wise Brown

I carry her with me now like a loose sweater that sucks out the chill on a snowy winter night.

Pinkie Gordon Lane