Women Quotes - Page 37

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

Never forget to dream.

Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.