Alice Stone Blackwell

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. Alice [...]

Nellie Bly

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. Nellie Bly How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even [...]

Victoria Billings

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. Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. Victoria Billings Constant togetherness is fine – but [...]

Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a [...]

Jeffrey Bernard

But you’ve got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn’t matter as much when you’re young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it. Jeffrey Bernard I don’t remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I’ve [...]

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Glenn Beck

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. Glenn Beck Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat [...]

Paul Begala

I try hard to be a good Catholic. Paul Begala Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. Paul Begala My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was [...]

Phyllis Battelle

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea. Phyllis Battelle For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. Phyllis Battelle If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack [...]

Maria Bartiromo

Oil is a very important component of economic growth. Maria Bartiromo I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. Maria Bartiromo Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate [...]

Martin Bashir

The children don’t wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. Martin Bashir Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. Martin Bashir He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that’s why they were covered up. When [...]

Luigi Barzini

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. Luigi Barzini To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one [...]

Dave Barry

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. Dave Barry For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. Dave Barry Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly [...]

Clive Barnes

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet’s curtain calls is the Royal Ballet’s dancing. Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. Clive Barnes

Rona Barrett

Pick your enemies carefully or you’ll never make it in Los Angeles. Rona Barrett The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. Rona Barrett It’s ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within [...]

Fred Barnes

Candidates don’t have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. Fred Barnes Obama sounded like Al Gore [...]

Lynn Barber

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. Lynn Barber

Ashleigh Banfield

I’ve had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC. Ashleigh Banfield We didn’t see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? Ashleigh Banfield I’m not sure Americans are hesitant to [...]

Russell Baker

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. Russell Baker When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. Russell Baker [...]

Ray Stannard Baker

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. Ray Stannard Baker Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of [...]

Jack Anderson

It’s my father’s legacy. My father’s view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they’re up to. Jack Anderson That’s a great team we lost to. It just wasn’t our day. Jack Anderson The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s [...]

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. Gamaliel Bailey There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. Gamaliel Bailey Never [...]

Isaac Babel

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel

Roone Arledge

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future. Roone Arledge One of the towering people in this industry said, why don’t you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make [...]

Peter Arnett

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. Peter Arnett President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in [...]

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