Wise Women Quotes - Page 5

• Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

  Robert Jordan

  Wise, Queens, Watches

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.561, Macmillan

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• Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

  Joan Aiken

  Spices, Few Words

  Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Criticism, Praise, Deceived

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• A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

  Ayn Rand

  Desire, Doe, Care

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.13, Penguin

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Apples, Long, Hollywood

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

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• I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Evil, Apologizing

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.463, Penguin

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• Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists say. I move beyond my present income, and I go beyond the economic forecasts. I do not listen to people out there telling me how far I can go or what I can do.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, People, Income

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 22, 2011

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• Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Intellectual, Deep Thought

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  A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Suffering, Businessman

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Wise

  Song: If He Tries Anything, Album: Out Of Range

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Ocean, Men

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Fear, Men

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• Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Wise, Photography, Book

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• Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

  Philippa Gregory

  Wise, Mean, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Iron

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Marriage, Forgiveness

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.25, Harvest House Publishers

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• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Success, Jobs

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• The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

  Freya Stark

  Wise, Waiting, Unexpectedness

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Wise, Grief, Angel

  Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

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