It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Orson Pratt

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Bertrand Russell

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point

Virginia Woolf

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Jane Austen

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Lauren Holly

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Ralph Nader

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Women of