Quotes by Women Journalists

Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

Some people say that the lives of working women are too hard and their education too small for them to become a powerful voice in winning the vote. Such people have forgotten their history.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation.

Pauline Hopkins

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

And the Third World will continue to beckon to the First, reminding it of the Galilean vision of Christian solidarity.

I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.

Robin Roberts (newscaster)

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Isabella Beeton

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it.

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

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

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

I want to breathe the Lotus flow'r
Sighing to the stars
With tendrils drinking at the Nile...
I want to feel the surging
Of my sad people's soul,
Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. People were beaten down. Everybody drank too much. Everything was hostile and dysfunctional. It was a good education about why the U.S. was a better place.

Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

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.

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Number theory... is a field of almost pristine irrelevance to everything except the wondrous demonstration that pure numbers, no more substantial than Plato's shadows, conceal magical laws and orders that the human mind can discover after all.

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

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