Quotes by Women Journalists

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.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

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

Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.

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.

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

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

Decca Aitkenhead

Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

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.'

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

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

Tatiana de Rosnay

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

Elizabeth Chase Allen

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

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

Jennifer 8. Lee

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

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.

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

Isabella Beeton

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

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

There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

Minette Walters

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Margaret Carlson

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.