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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.