Quotes by Women Journalists

Emma Goldman

Isabel Allende

Jane Addams

George Eliot

Margaret Mitchell

Svetlana Alexievich

Anna Politkovskaya

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

There is nothing that more obviously separates the powerful from the powerless than graciousness.

Liz Smith (journalist)

Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

Leaks have happened before. They are not new. But the industrial scale of leaking made possible through the digitisation of information and the ability to communicate instantly across the globe - that is new. If it is to be revolutionary, however, we need a model for a new type of politics.

It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.

Alice-Leone Moats

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind...

Katharine Whitehorn

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved their hands in farewell and turned their faces at last towards the magical adventures that stalked about impatiently awaiting their advent in the strange countries where their havens lay.

Elizabeth Bisland

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships — even the fictional ones — have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

Lauren Weisberger

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.

Peggy Orenstein

Living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Carrie Chapman Catt

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

Cathleen Falsani

It's not a woman's task—to hate and to kill. Not for us … We had to persuade ourselves. To talk ourselves into it.

Svetlana Alexievich

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

They ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Olive Ann Burns

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word 'human'.

Suzanne La Follette

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight!

Elizabeth Chase Allen

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

Joan Lowery Nixon

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