If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
Leonardo DiCaprio

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
Joan Rivers

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
Joan Rivers

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
Og Mandino

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike

My mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy Buffett

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville