Issue #24 March 2005

Welcome to the Twenty-Fourth Edition of "BellaOnline Quotations Zine." This free bi-monthly newsletter features new quotations, related news, links to helpful resources for QuoteLovers online, and much more.

"A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally."
-- Maya Angelou

"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him."
-- Cher

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. "
-- Erica Jong

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. "
-- Maryon Pearson

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart."
-- Margaret Jackson

"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
-- John Millington Synge (1871–1909)

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."
-- Charles M. Crowe

"Easter so longed for is gone in a day."
-- James Howell

"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
-- W. P. Lemon

"Jesus took my place on the cross to give me a place in heaven."
-- Unknown

"You lose a lot of time, hating people."
-- Marian Anderson

"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
-- Maya Angelou

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever."
-- James Baldwin

"When our thoughts -- which bring actions -- are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."
-- George Washington Carver

"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possess it."
-- Kenneth B. Clarke

"Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence."
-- James Cone

"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."
-- Bill Cosby

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-- Frederick Douglass

"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"Our only hope is to control the vote."
-- Medgar Evers

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts."
-- Ella Fitzgerald

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
-- Ernest J. Gaines

"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
-- Judith Jamison

"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."
-- Coretta Scott King

"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."
-- Rosa Parks