"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

“There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending money and being paid. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. These are things we do. I just think it's important to look at them from a different perspective - to see how bizarre and banal these rituals we partake in are. It's just important to think about them, I think, and to carry on. Life is about retrospection, and I think that goes for every facet of life.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”

“It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.”

“Success is a great healer.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.95, Broadview Press

“Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.”

“The primary reason to outlaw ***** is its effect on the degenerate races.”

“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.”

“The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.”

Source : Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin