Women Quotes - Page 13

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .

A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.