Great quotes from great women
"There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump." Hattie McDaniel
"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it." Natalie Barney
"When I get all these accolades for being true to myself, I say, 'Who else can I be? I can't be Chris Evert.'" Martina Navratilova
"Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half." Lisa Birnbach
"I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care." Kim Basinger
"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." Lisa Alther
"It was hard having my whole political life reduced to a hairdo. I was basically an Afro, not a person." Angela Davis
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career." Ruth Benedict
"Sex can cure an asthma attack. I saved a man's life once." Annie Sprinkle
"I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night." Carrie Snow
"To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art." Cynthia Ozick
"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." Lauren Bacall
"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Mother Jones
"If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." Tallulah Bankhead
"Men, their rights and nothing more' women, their rights and nothing less." Susan B. Anthony
"Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy - the kind most people really enjoy." Liz Smith
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein
"It's been a lot of fun making the revolution." Betty Friedan
"Getting married is just the first step toward getting divorced." Zsa
Zsa Gabor
"No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."
Florence King
"Study as if you were gong to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow." Maria Mitchell
"It's a good thing that I was born a woman, or I'd have been a drag queen."
Dolly Parton
"If only we stopped trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton
"I want a man in my life. Not in my house." Joy Behar
"The biggest sin is sitting on your ass." Florence Kennedy
"They expect me to wear a halo and I only wear a hat."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees." Frances Perkins
"The world thinks of me as such a scarlet woman; I'm almost purple." Elizabeth Taylor
"When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'" Patricia Schroeder
'A guilty conscience is the mother of invention." Carolyn Wells
"Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain." Mae West
"I'm a Witch, I'm a Bitch. I don't care what you say." Yoko Ono
"I am not a woman. I am a human being." Indira Gandhi
"I love humanity but I hate people." Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The only point at which the interests of the sexes merge - is the sexual embrace." Mina Loy