Quotes by Women Publishers

Alice Meynell

Helen Gurley Brown

Margaret Sidney

Claire Cook

Nancy Peters

Charlotta Bass

Joni Evans

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Love doesn't just drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.

'It's better'n a Christmas,' they told their mother, 'to get ready for it!'

Margaret Sidney

People assume you slept your way to the top. Frankly, I couldn't sleep my way to the middle.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Lila Bell Wallace

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Stephanie Dowrick

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

The Americans who came across the plains in covered wagons and those who followed the trail later in trains drawn by the iron horse were interested in home ownership and a new life. Especially was this true of the Negro pioneers. They knew it was not a case of starting again. For them it was the dawn of a new life in an atmosphere of freedom.