Women Quotes - Page 25

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  Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

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  Sherry Argov

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Competition

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Motivational, Fear, Hard Work

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• There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Shoes, Charming

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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

  Regina Brett

  Funny, Relationship, Secret

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• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  Ntozake Shange

  Feminist, African American, Alive

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• A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

  Andie MacDowell

  Country, Giving Up, Offering

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• We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Selfish, Insecure, Helping Others

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.135, Bantam

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• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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• Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

  Waris Dirie

  Relationship, Trust, Loyalty

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• To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Learning, Laughing, Stupidity

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Book, Reading

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• I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Clothes, People

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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Quilts, Moving, Political

  Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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• As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Daughter, Unique, Being Different

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• I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Believe, Heart, Forgotten

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, People

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Girl, Education, Smart

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• Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.

  James Hadley Chase

  Relationship, Sex, Cat

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• I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

  Calamity Jane

  Motivational, Girl, Strong Women

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• Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Freedom, Generations, Uniforms

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• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Self, Law

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• We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

  Brené Brown

  Daughter, Mother, Being A Mom

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• Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

  Omar Suleiman

  Marriage, Respect, Religious

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Nov 18, 2013

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• I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

  Manning Marable

  Strength, African American, Black

  Manning Marable (1988). “The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power”

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