I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

Oscar Wilde

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

François Arago

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of societyIt is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

Cardinal Newman

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Xun Zi

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.Oh, but I am, without shame. Her name is Titianni Aziz.

V.S. Carnes

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Patrick Henry

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Shannon Miller

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Taraji P. Henson