Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Ovid

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

Matthew Fox

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

Marya Mannes

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Marya Mannes

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Danny Huston

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

Anne Heche

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

Anne Lamott

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Anne Lamott

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

Anne Lamott

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

Ann Voskamp

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Ann Voskamp

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

Mark Steyn

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Nick Lowe

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Nick Carter

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Eudora Welty

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Jack Paar

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Wislawa Szymborska

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.