Women Quotes - Page 15

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

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

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

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

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.