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Emily Bront� Quotes


I cannot live without my life!


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Gwendolyn Brooks was an Illinois poet laureate who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
Selected Gwendolyn Brooks Quotations


� Poetry is life distilled.

� Art hurts.

� Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

� I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Olympia Brown Quotes

Preaching slogan: No soul saved after the first twenty minutes.

The (otherwise unnamed) wife of Ebenezer Fisher did not approve of women in ministry. She said this about Olympia Brown, to one of Brown's classmates at Canton Theological School: You will see now the consequence of this. Next year there will be fifteen women in the class, and then women will flock to the ministry.

Rita Mae Brown (1944 - )

Rita Mae Brown, a writer, was a gay activist and feminist in the 1960s, founded "Lavender Menace" when she was fired by the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1969. Rita Mae Brown has written Rubyfruit Jungle and other novels including a mystery series.

Selected Rita Mae Brown Quotations

� As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

� One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

� I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

� Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

� This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

� What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

� Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

� Writers will happen in the best of families.

Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

Women power is a formidable force.

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

It is simple, really. Human health and the health of ecosystems are inseparable.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Pearl S. Buck, a 20th century American woman writer, wrote The Good Earth and many other novels. Pearl Buck grew up in China, spoke Chinese before she spoke English, and often wrote of China and Asia in her fiction.

Selected Pearl S. Buck Quotations

� A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

� When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

� None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

� To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Billie Burke Quote:


Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Maria Callas Quotes

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring documenting the impacts of pesticides on ecology. Because of this book, Rachel Carson is often credited with reviving the environmentalist movement.

Selected Rachel Carson Quotations

� If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

� For all at last returns to the sea -- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

� Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

� If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )

Rosalynn Carter, US First Lady 1977-1981, was an active campaigner for her husband, and an advisor and consultant to him. She managed the family business during much of his political career. Her focus as First Lady was mental health reform.

Selected Rosalynn Carter Quotations

� Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

� A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

� I think I am the person closest to the President of the United States, and if I can help him understand the countries of the world, then that's what I intend to do.

� I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.