Women Quotes - Page 23

• ‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

  Audre Lorde

  Love, Inspiring, Happiness

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Time, Philosophical, Doing Nothing

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Inspirational, Strength, Romantic

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Jobs, Sex

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

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• Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Fun, Anger

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

  Julianne Hough

  Inspirational, Girl, Love Yourself

  "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  Padma Lakshmi

  Witty, Clever, Smart

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• When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Fitness

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• When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

  Tyler Perry

  Strong Women, Moving, Heaven

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Inspirational, Husband, Children

  "Cultural Rhythms Showcases Talent" by Evelyn Lilly, www.thecrimson.com. February 28, 2005.

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• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  Lana Turner

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

  Ann Brashares

  Being Happy, Talking, Psychology

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• The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Funny, Thinking, Downgrading

  Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Book

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Fighting

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Mean, Recovery

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Quilts, Symbolism

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