Women Quotes - Page 51

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.