But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
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or other. If we cultivate the... MAHATMA GANDHI Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the... ROY GOODMAN None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the... BILL JAMES Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be pai... LENA DUNHAM Women do not have a problem, they only fall easily for things they do not understand. MARCO OSCAR OZ I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. MARK TWAIN I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts MARK TWAIN Saying all that I need to do or should be doing is easy and it takes the spotlight away from what I ... MALTI BHOJWANI I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go h... TONY CAMPOLO If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you wo... DAVE BARRY We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization. DICK MILLER Refugees are given shelter in the country and they should confine themselves to being refugees and s... AZIZ AHMAD Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate th... MAHATMA GANDHI Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea... RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou... SIDNEY MADWED Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being r... JESSICA VALENTI For many men it is very difficult to accept and understand Infertility. They think only women can be... 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EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ... EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in... EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise... EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br... EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert... EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex... EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot... EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into... EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people... EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s... EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ... EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t... EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology... EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t... EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co... EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ... EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t... EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli... EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ... EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev... EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer. EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ... EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi... EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin... EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J... EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ... EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ... EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't. EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m... EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca... EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan... EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a... EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ... EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo... EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame... EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does... EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet... EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle... EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a... EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las... EDITH CAVELL