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Engender - An information, research and networking organisation for women in Scotland.
Quine Online - Scottish Women - Quine is a non-profit site which highlights the activities, interests and concerns of Scottish women in all walks of life.
Soroptimist International Scotland South - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Includes list of clubs, office bearers and projects including women and prison.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Women America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Women "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Women In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Women A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Women Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Women "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Women For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Women When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Women Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Women A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Women If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Women "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Women What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Women It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Women If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Women Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Women Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Women "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Women "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Women Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Women The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Women
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