Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women. – Jane Howard
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes
In Lincolns day a Presidents religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincolns countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. – David Herbert Donald
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant
