Women Quotes - Page 33

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are.