Concerning her 1949 nude calendar photos this actress said It's not true I had nothing on; I had the radio on

This primitive artist who began painting in her 70s said Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy

On August 10 1945 this former First Lady wrote The times now call for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights

This mademoiselle said As for you archers soldiers gentlemen...who are besieging Orleans depart in God's name

She once remarked Freaks was a thing that I photographed a lot

Freed from prison in 2005 she said The experience of the last five months... has been life altering and life affirming

Dorothy Parker quipped that Brevity is the soul of this sexywear

She once remarked The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments not on my gender

In 1926 she told Ernest Hemingway You are all a lost generation

People said women couldn't swim the Channel... I proved they could; & so she did in 1926

In the New Testament Elizabeth told her Blessed art thou among women

Lead me not into this says Rita Mae Brown; I can find the way myself

Singer Carmen McRae once said Blues is to jazz what this is to bread--without it it's flat

She wrote When my kids become wild and unruly I use a nice safe playpen. When they're finished I climb out

In On Death and Dying she said Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death

In You Learn By Living this First Lady of the 1940s challenged You must do the thing you think you cannot do

This Bronte sister revealed in an 1840s letter I am neither a man nor a woman but an author

While San Francisco mayor this Calif. senator remarked Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry confided this co-founder of Ms. magazine

In The Second Sex this French author declared One is not born a woman one becomes one

This talk show host said in 1988 If there had never been a Phil there never would have been a me

Carol Burnett quipped that doing this Is like taking your lower lip & forcing it over your head

Jacqueline Roque said of him If my husband ever met a woman... who looked like one of his paintings he would faint

This cartoonist calls Mothers food love and career: the four major guilt groups

She told Ernest Hemingway You are all a lost generation