This weeks featured women quotations:
Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Clara Barton:
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Mary Catherine Bateson:
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
Shirley Temple Black:
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Alice Stone Blackwell:
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Elizabeth Blackwell:
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
Linda Blandford:
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
Charlotte Brontë:
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own.
Rita Mae Brown:
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
Rita Mae Brown:
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Ingrid Bergman:
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman:
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Rita Mae Brown:
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Charlotte Brontë:
Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Alice Stone Blackwell:
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell:
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
Charlotte Brontë:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Emily Brontë:
I cannot live without my life!
Mary Catherine Bateson:
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
Candice Bergen:
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Sally Berger:
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Ingrid Bergman:
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Erma Bombeck:
We've got a generation now who were born with semi-equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
Erma Bombeck:
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck:
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Lesley Boone:
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.