Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Davis

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Amy Goodman

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Amy Grant

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Anita Hill

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Ambrose Bierce

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Alicia Keys

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

My mom is definitely my rock.

Alice Sebold

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Ani Difranco

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

Ani Difranco

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Amy Poehler

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

Allan Bloom

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Alison Gopnik

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Alison Gopnik

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Ann Curry

Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning

Ann Curry

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.

Andrea Dworkin

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Andrea Dworkin

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Jane Austen

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Jane Austen

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.