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Notable Quotes by Women
Notable Quotes
Joan Baez
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Action is the antidote to despair.
All serious daring starts from within.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
Diane Arbus
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Nancy Astor
We are not asking for superiority for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
I married beneath me -- all women do.
Corazon (Cory) Aquino
It has often been said that Marcos was the first male chauvinist to underestimate me.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Frances Lear
I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Ursula LeGuin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Doris Lessing
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Clare Boothe Luce
Thoughts have no sex.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Lucille Ball
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Sarah Bernhardt
And I regret that I cannot prove that I am a natural blonde.
Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Billie Burke
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
Harriet Martineau
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Elsa Maxwell
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Grandma Moses
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
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