I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Fear always springs from ignorance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.

Frank Black

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

Ellie Kemper

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

Sally Schneider

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perf

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

Edward W. Howe