Quotes by Women Journalists

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Liz Smith (journalist)

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

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Rheta Childe Dorr

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

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

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

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

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education. If you give someone £20 and say, 'Feed your family for the week on it,' a lot of people just couldn't do it adequately and that's because there's – and I do blame the readymeal industry for it, because it is so easy and so attractively packaged, and you just put it in a microwave – a disconnection between what's in that packet, and how simple and cheap it might be to make it for yourself. I think if we can solve food education then we are part of the way to solving food poverty.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

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.

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

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

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

You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

P. M. H. Atwater

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

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

Joan Lowery Nixon

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

Anna Politkovskaya

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

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.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

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

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

It's not about hair, it's about being you—whether that's something the industry has seen before and accepts or not.