"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
--- Elizabeth Taylor
"How pleasant it is, at the end of the day,
No follies to have to repent;
But reflect on the past, and be able to say,
That my time has been properly spent."
---Jane Taylor
This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho
and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"
--- Judy Tenuta
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless."
---Mother Teresa
"Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being
offensive."
---Josephine Tey
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything
done, ask a woman."
--- Margaret Thatcher
"It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you
throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout."
---Cheryl Tiegs
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
--Lily Tomlin
"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."
---Lily Tomlin
"Ultimately, I am not in control of my life. I do not really
make it happen specifically the way I want. I am subject to life
more than life is subject to me."
---Djohariah Toor in The Road by the River
"No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother's
affair."
---Margaret Turnbull
"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
--- Anne Tyler
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
---Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows."
---Jennifer Unlimited
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed."
---Queen Victoria
"Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face. I
have been trying to tell you what I am doing. I am a woman who came
from the cotton fields of the South. I was promoted from there to
the washtub. Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there
I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods
and preparations. I know how to grow hair as well as I know how
to grow cotton. I have built my own factory on my own ground."
---Madam C.J. (Sarah) Walker to Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League
Convention in 1912
"If I ever felt inclined to be timid... I would say to myself, 'You're the
cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest nation
in the world -- why should you be frightened?'"
---Beatrice Webb
"Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em."
---Mary Webb
"When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box,
attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation
Army. It was a big loss."
---Veronica Webb
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
---Edith Wharton
"I picked up a pamphlet on heart attacks in the doctor's office
this week. It discusses exercise and exertion and caloric expenditure. According to this
source, passionate sex uses up 40 calories every ten minutes.
So does weeding."
---Sally Button White
"Seems I forgot that weeding and sex use up 45, not 40, calories per
time segment. Now you have no excuse not to lose that extra five pounds. Get out there and
garden."
---Sally Button White
"'How wonderful it must have been for the Ancient Britons,' my mother
said once, 'when the Romans arrived and they could have a Hot Bath.'"
---Katharine Whitehorn
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
---Charlotte Whitton
"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
--- Kate Douglas Wiggin
"Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to
enjoy our life we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at
stated intervals, when we get time, or when we have nothing else to do. It
may be well that it is not our work that is so hard for us as the dread of
it and our often expressed hatred of it. Perhaps it is our spirit and
attitudes towards life and its conditions that are giving us trouble,
instead of shortage of time....A feeling of pleasure in a task seems to
shorten in wonderfully and it makes a great difference with the day's work
if we get enjoyment from it instead of looking for all our pleasure
altogether apart from it."
---Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1919
"My mother says she just wants me to be happy -- doing what she wants me
to do."
---Julia Willis
"Mr. Right is coming -- but he's in Africa, and he's walking."
---Oprah Winfrey
"I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost
got married."
---Shelley Winters
"I think, therefore I'm single."
--- Lizz Winstead
"The devine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings,
may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without
danger."
---Marry Wollstonecraft
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more
interesting perhaps that the story of that emancipation itself."
---Virginia Woolf