Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

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.

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

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

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.