Famous Women Quotes - Page 6

• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Being Yourself, Laughter

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• The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Cute Love, Romantic, Dance

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• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• You can't win them all but you can try.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Inspirational, Baseball, Golf

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• If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

  Regina Brett

  Funny, Relationship, Women

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• Everyone is entitled to my opinion

  Madonna Ciccone

  Singers, Actresses, Opinion

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• In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Stupid People, Society

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.53, Penguin

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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  The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Life, Thinking, Answers

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.100, Macmillan

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

  Sarah Emma Edmonds

  Success, Romantic, Ambition

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• Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy Life, Emotional

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Time, Effectiveness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.551, Hamilton Books

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• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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• It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

  Anita Ekberg

  Movie, Way, Actresses

  "R.I.P. Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2015.

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• There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Song, African American

  "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, 1974.

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, Clothes, Flying

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• It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Novelists, Wealth

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• Success breeds confidence.

  Beryl Markham

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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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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• To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

  Gertrude Ederle

  Beach, Children, Crazy

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• Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

  Unknown

  Gun, Usa, Goal

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