Quotable Women: Well behaved women rarely make history.

Strong women leave big hickies - Madonna

Louisa May Alcott: I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Katharine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Marian Anderson: As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Well behaved women rarely make history.

Hannah Arendt: The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.

Leah Arendt: Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Tallulah Bankhead: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Tallulah Bankhead: (on seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Dianne Feinstein: Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Lillian Hellman: People change and forget to tell each other.

Anne Lamott: A hundred years from now? All new people.

Dorothy Parker: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Virginia Woolf: Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf: The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Virginia Woolf: Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf: If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Claudia Young: If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Charlotte Whitton: Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.


Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Well behaved women rarely make history.

Elizabeth Adamson - Baby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.