Famous Women Quotes - Page 9

• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Inspiring, Sad

  "Oprah Magazine", 2004.

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Lost Love, Women

  "How to Catch a Man, how to Keep a Man, how to Get Rid of a Man". Book by Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1970.

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

  Anjelica Huston

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowering

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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