From the mouths of babes...

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth. (Eventually dubbed "Washington's other monument," Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious daughter raised hell in her hometown...for nearly nine decades.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. - Denise McCluggage - one of the world's fastest women on (race car) wheels

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights. - Ines Milholland - Vassar girl who staged a women's rights rally...in 1909

The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. - Margaret Anderson - leading literary light of the early 1900s

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - Benazir Bhutto - Former Pakistani Prime Minister and prisoner of state

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf - bisexual Bloomsbury novelist

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. - Charlotte Bronte - author of Jane Eyre

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. - Jeannette Rankin - first woman to serve in Congress

Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, that are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid voume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eyes bright with battle. - Catherine Drinker Bowen - professional biographer

To be perfectly honest, what I'm really thinking about are dollar signs. Tonya Harding

I'm not one of those little things. I have a butt and boobs. It's great. I sometimes tell people I weigh ten pounds more that I actually do. - Courtney Love

A Bitch takes shit from no one. You may not like her, but you cannot ignore her. - Joreen - one of the biggest bitches in the Sixties sisterhood movement

Strong women leave big hickeys. - Madonna

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Colette, author

I've always said: I'm happy to take my clothes off if the man takes his off. If you're willing to let him run around with his willy hanging out, I'm perfectly happy to run around in the buff. But nobody ever makes that deal with me. - Michelle Pfeiffer

It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! - Merrill Markoe

I never said, I want to be alone. I only said, I want to be left alone. There is all the difference. - Greta Garbo

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terrible what I will at all. - Catherine II of Russia

No man ever prospered in the world without the consent and cooperation of his wife. - Abigail Adams - Dear Abby, aka "Mrs. President"

A gentlemen opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, "Women have never produced anything of value to the world." I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. - Anna Shaw, minister

Men are more often defeated because of their own clumsiness that because of a woman's virtue. - Ninon De Lenclos - Seventeenth-century courtesan whose great gift to her fellow French women was teaching young nobles how to make nooky nicely