Women Quotes - Page 20

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.