Women Quotes - Page 2

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.