Women Quotes - Page 36

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate. What a joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could do and being the people they never believed they could be.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.