Women Quotes - Page 32

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

You are more powerful than you think.

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.