Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation - Provides advice, support, refuge, aftercare to women and children suffering from domestic violence. Features publications, services and information on making a donation.
Women's News - Ireland's Feminist Monthly: based in Belfast.
Future Search - Organisation facilitating networking between women's groups. Includes conference information.
Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) - Includes information on the history, policies, and membership of the non-sectarian, cross community political party "dedicated to finding a peaceful and just solution to the Conflict in Northern Ireland."
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There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Women He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Women
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Women "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Women
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Women The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Women
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Women Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Women
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Women We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Women
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Women It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Women
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Women Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Women
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Women A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Women
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Women Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Women
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Women Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Women
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Women Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Women
