A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call any black woman 'Sally.' 'Aunt Sally.' So this was like... you can't call me that.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

If you wear your hair straight or natural, it's all fine with me. It doesn't mean that you aren't politically conscious or that you don't have good thoughts about progress.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.