Women Quotes - Page 27

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.