Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

It seems strange, since the aspect of a woman is power and that her subtle physical body conducts light very well, that more women don't attain enlightenment than men. I would suggest that the reason this is so, is cultural.

It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

It's not that I believe women are more ethical. I will say that one of women's greatest weaknesses is probably our greatest strength. We are incredibly hard on each other. We ask all the questions. Men are more easygoing. If you've ever been in a group of women, you'll recognize this: Nobody gives one woman the opportunity to lead the way without asking a whole lot of questions.

It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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.