Sunday, May 21, 2017

Give Up Power, Thinking, Alice Walker

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple"

Found at http://everydaypowerblog.com/2015/12/04/alice-walker-quotes/.

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Gratitude, Humanity, Elie Wiesel

"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." Elie Wiesel

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel599768.html.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Men and Women, Live Next Door, Visit, Katharine Hepburn

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” - Actress Katharine Hepburn, who got along famously with married lover Spencer Tracy during a quarter-century of now-and-then visits.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 136.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Saying to Myself, Paint as I Wanted to, Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day I found myself saying to myself, 'I can't live where I want to. I can't even say what I want to!' I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.” - Georgia O'Keeffe, doyenne of the painted desert. Convent-educated O'Keeffe also didn't enjoy hearing about the sexual symbolism of her work, insisting that any putative crotch imagery was nothing but a crock.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 161.