Women Quotes - Page 41

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.