Great Quotes

“One cannot think well, love well, and sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

-Virginia Woolf

“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.”

– Martha “Calamity Jane” Burke

“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.  There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.  So what the hell, leap.”    -Cynthia Heimel, writer

“Women’s place is where they can do the most good.”   -Esther Peterson, women’s advocate and winner of the 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation.  If we can onlyl stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.”    -Charlotte Davis Kasl, psychologist and author

• “The little cares which fretted me
• I lost them yesterday,
• Among the fields, above the sea,
• Among the winds at play,
• Among the lowing of the herds,
• The rustling of the trees,
• Among the singing of the birds,
• The humming of the bees.”          
•   -Elizabeth Barrett Browning,nineteenth century poet.

“One day I just said, Hey, what if this is it?  What if this is just what I look like, and nothing I do changes that?  so how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second everytime I look in the mirror to call myself fat?  How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders?  How much time would I save?  And it turns out I save about ninety-two minutes a week.  I can take a pottery class.”       -Margaret Cho, comedian and actor.

“For lack of attention a thousand forms of lovliness elude us every day.”  -Evelyn Underhill, writer

“It rained like a cow peeing on a flat rock”   – Unknown 

“Forgive your enemies.  It messes up their heads.”   – Unknown

“Always drink upstream from the herd.”   – Unknown

“Scars are cowboy tatoos with better stories.”   – Unknown

“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”  -John Wayne

“I don’t know how we survived so many years thinking of women as a separate chapter.  We are not a separate chapter.  We are half the book.”   -Rosario Green, economist, diplomat, and politician.

“I was raised in a small town.  It was so small that our school taught driver’s education and sex education in the same car.”  -Mary Sue Terry – Former Attorney General of Virginia.