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National Council of Women of Great Britain - A forum where women, as individuals or as members or affiliates of ncwgb, can exchange information and ideas, formulate policy, educate and promote change.
Aviva - An international women's listing magazine which enables women all over the world to make contact with each other.
The Fawcett Library - Documents the changing role of women in society, in the past, now and in the future.
The Feminist Archive - Collects and preserves feminist material from the 1960's to the present day. Whilst the archive is not available online, you can read the newsletter, browse the links or donate material. The archive is based in Bristol.
everywoman.co.uk - Designed to provide women with the resources, advice and tools needed to solve the age old problem of how to juggle it all, while maintaining some degree of sanity.
handbag.com - Website, portal and ISP for women - providing information about health and beauty, family matters, cookery, careers and special offers. From Boots plc.
iVenus.com - Web network for European women, covering topics from fashion, beauty, through to personal finance and horoscopes.
PlanetGrrl - For and by women and grrls in the UK in or interested in new media and technology and other grrl stuff.
Beauty and the Dirt - Slightly satirical ezine covering beauty, travel, gossip, fashion and shopping.
iVillage UK - Portal/community site with a variety of channels of interest to women.
iCircle - Women's channel from Freeserve, with a mix of health, fashion, beauty, travel and financial advice, chat channels and discussion boards.
What UK Women Want - Information, goods and services for Women in the United Kingdom including pubs, restaurants, holidays, relationships, support groups, and employment.
Femail - Portal and ezine for women with health and beauty content, news and advice on money, travel and relationships. Free e-mail accounts, find a phone number service, chats, experts and message boards.
UK Radical Feminist Mailing List - An email mailing and discussion list for radical feminists in the UK
Femalefirst - Online community for women offering articles on issues such as sex and relationships, fashion, entertainment, and travel.
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Women I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Women A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Women Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Women A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Women Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Women When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Women Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Women Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Women "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Women Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Women I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Women Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Women Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Women Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Women He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Women It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Women "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Women "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Women "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) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Women "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Women
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