wisdom from women who write
continuing the theme this month about women....
Favorite quotes -- all from smart women...
From Anne Morrow Lindberg:
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
"Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
From Eleanor Roosevelt:
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living..."
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."
From Dorothy Parker:
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
"Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation."
From Mae West:
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
"Sex is emotion in motion."
"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."