Women Quotes - Page 7

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.