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BCC Women's Forum - Council-affiliated interactive resource for Bristol women, including information, quizzes, message boards, and display gallery.
BPW Bristol - Local network group of business and professional women with an active programme of speakers, seminars, training workshops and social events in central Bristol.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women - Confidential helpline service providing a safe supportive environment for women in emotional distress: information sheets, links, and contact details.
The Feminist Archive - Locally based resource which collects and preserves feminist material from the 1960's to the present day: newsletter, links, and contact information.
Wellwomen Information - News, services, health service links and contact details from local women's health resource, incorporating Sehatmand Aurat - The Asian Women's Health Project.
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Women A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Women Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Women The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Women "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Women He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Women "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Women Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Women Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Women "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Women Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Women As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Women I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Women "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Women The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Women Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Women I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Women "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Women Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Women Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Women "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Women
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