Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
English queen 1558-1603 (1533 - 1603) When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934 A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985 What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
US author & critic (1933 - ) Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
US Transcendentalist author & editor (1810 - 1850) She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988 To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969 My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
US movie actress (1908 - 1989) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945) | 
