Witty Quotes - Page 9

• Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mother, Daughter, Night

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• Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

  Faye Wattleton

  Rights, Choices, Our Future

  Faye Wattleton (1998). “Life on the Line”

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• Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

  Helen Prejean

  Pain, Self, Enough

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.144, Vintage

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• It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Political, Matter

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• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

  Dinah Shore

  Men, Pay, Today

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• Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Where You Are

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• You never find yourself until you face the truth.

  Pearl Bailey

  Life, Encouraging, Being Yourself

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Humorous, Lasts

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  A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Laughter, Hipster

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Powerful, Humorous

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  A. J. Liebling

  Powerful, Humorous, Writing

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• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Sarcastic, Powerful, Humorous

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• Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

  MaryAnne Tebedo

  Funny, Pregnancy, Age

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• Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Funny, Humorous, Skills

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• Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Inspirational, Humorous, Doubt

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• Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

  Funny, Nagging, Repetition

  Speech to Married Women's Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960, in The Times 15 July 1960

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• Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Baby, Children, Yeah

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• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Friendship, Kids

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• The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Humorous, Science, Engineering

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Humorous, Science, Insightful

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

  Maya Angelou

  Struggle, Warrior, Laughing

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

  Margaret Atwood

  Son, Branches, One Woman

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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