How do we know the Easter Bunny is a woman? Duh, chocolate! ~ Kurious Kitty ~ Happy Easter! Photo © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved....

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow ...

A poem is land found, as if for the first time. If I already knew what it would hold, I wouldn’t need the poem, and if what it holds were k...

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all--make us laugh, think, cry and cheer--preferably in that order. ~ Madeleine Albrig...

Selectivity of mass extinction events is sometimes linked with body size, ecological constraints and competition, while other times it coul...

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ~ Elizabeth I ~ Portrait by Steven van der Meul...

Those of us who have participated believe it's important to have a process where candidates have to interact with voters one-on-one. ...

They calm me, these animals who could be wild but choose not to be, who go outside to kill and lounge around, then come home every day for ...

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it? ~ Florence Harding ~ Photo courtesy Librar...

All art is knowing when to stop. ~ Toni Morrison ~

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, diffi...

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated wh...

"Well, I'm glad they like me," thought the Stuffed Elephant to himself, for just now he was not allowed to speak out loud or...

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever...

And when the cat appeared he seemed to them of the size of a bullock; and this was his appearance—rapacious, panting, jagged-eared, snub-nos...

I have hope because awareness and action are rising for women’s rights. A belief is growing that enough is enough. But I am outraged becau...

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. ~ Mary Oliver ~

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. ~ Lena Horne ~ Photo courtesy Movie-Fan .

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. ~ Mia Hamm ~ Photo cour...

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. ~ Pearl S. Buck ~ Photo ©The Nobel Foundation ...

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. ...

And hold the freedom of their will To roam, to live, to drink their fill ~ Victoria Sackville-West from "The Greater Cats" ~ ...

  Women must have an institutional voice and must occupy key roles. And not just to keep the peace and bring about reconciliation. We need ...

Shall I speak like a poet, or run      Into weak woman's tears for relief? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning from "Only a Curl" ...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ~ Louisa May Alcott ~ Photo from Lives of...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosi...

I think we should all work for equal suffrage, and I trust the time is not far distant when no man or woman will even admit that it was e...

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. ~ Victoria Woodhull ~ ...

flex and reflex of claws gently pricking through sweater to skin gently sustains their own tune ~ Denise Levertov from "The Cat A...

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ~ Nora Ephron ~

To celebrate Women's History Month, I'll be sharing a quote from a woman each day of the month. Here's the first one: There is ...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys a...

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. ~ Frank Zappa ~

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. ~ Joe Moore ~

...In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. ...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~ Photo by ho visto nina volare .

Illustration by Edmund Dulac courtesy Project Gutenberg .

I want my fair share--and that's ALL of it. ~ Charles Koch ~ I guess Mr. Koch won't be honoring this special day. To learn abou...

And so with all things: names were vital and important. ~ Algernon H. Blackwood ~

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. ~ ...

The organization of cats is musical; they are capable of giving many modulations to their voices and in the different passions which occu...

And for me, to live in fear of you and your unnecessary fears, that’s not Freedom, nor is that Liberty. A gun doesn’t make a fearful person...

Poets write, I do believe, because they have to--it's something nothing else quite satisfies. One has to do it--compulsively. ~ Ro...

Love is a human experience, not a political statement. ~ Anne Hathaway ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

True Art is an organized piece of work that effectively communicates a genuine human experience. ~ Caleb Jacobo ~ 13th century Chinese...

Sorry, you'll probably have an earworm for the rest of the day. --KK

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you       Till China and Africa meet,              And the river jumps over the mountain    ...

I could never, even as a child, see any good reason why the language of verse should be distorted almost out of recognition in order t...

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys. ~ David Copperfield ~

The energy in a train station is an odd combination of adrenaline and boredom; anticipation for the destination tempered by impatience at h...

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles. ~ Chinese proverb ~ Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Gallery .

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~ Willa Cather ~ Photo courtesy the Willa Cather Archive .

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Photo by katstan .

The Poetry of earth is never dead. ~ John Keats ~ Photo by Striving to a Goal .

Most of the time, poetry enjoys the visibility of other minor cultural subcultures like chess or quilting. ~ Anita Diamant ~ Cover of T...

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. ~ Fred Allen ~ Graphic courtesy Open Clip Art Library .

"She is tolerable I suppose." ~ Mr. Darcy ~

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with...

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When teachers, aides, school counselors, and others spend hours in early spring drilling students on test-taking techniques, that is time th...

I say I don't like the dance image which always occurs when you try to figure out where the poet is doing things, and it's like a d...

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho ~

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learned to read. ~ Nicholas Cage ~

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. ~ James Cromw...

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And while milk is not poisonous to cats, it is also not ideal for fully grown and mature cats. The reason for this is that the majority of ...

But there is another glory belonging to this age, and almost to this age alone of our poetry--the glory of Female Genius. We have heard and ...

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either conti...

Cheesiness seems to belong to whatever strikes us as cheesy. The cheese fountain would be cheesy, we think, whether it burbled at the b...