Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.

It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.

I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.

Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.