Quotes by Women Journalists

Emma Goldman

Isabel Allende

Jane Addams

George Eliot

Margaret Mitchell

Svetlana Alexievich

Anna Politkovskaya

I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.

Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.

Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

Martha Gellhorn

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

Josephine Lawrence

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

Leslie T. Chang

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn't make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home, entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

A careful review of the evidence shows that whether a child has a mother who works or one who stays at home is usually not the issue. [What does matter] is sensitivity and responsiveness on the part of both parents.

The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

If you can't be yourself with a man, you can't be with that man.

The suffragettes were triumphant. Woman's place was in the gaol.