Pastoral Resources

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.