The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of orchids, piled in a great sheath.
- H.D. Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
- Artemisia Gentileschi
(1593-1651/53)
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
I did my best, and God did the rest.
- Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
- Greer Garson
(1904-1996)
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Our greatest trouble is to teach pupils not to be befooled by appearances.
- Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
- Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
Te doy mi alma desnuda,
como estatua a la cual ningún cendal escuda.
Desnuda con el puro impudor
de un fruto, de una estrella o una flor;
de todas esas cosas que tienen la infinita
serenidad de Eva antes de ser maldita.
De todas esas cosas,
frutos, astros y rosas,
que no sienten vergüenza del sexo sin celajes
y a quienes nadie osara fabricarles ropajes.
Sin velos, como el cuerpo de una diosa serena
¡que tuviera una intensa blancura de azucena!
Desnuda, y toda abierta de par en par
¡por el ansia del amar!
- Juana de Ibarbourou (1892(5) – 1979)
The world will know and understand me someday.
But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter.
I shall have opened the way for other women.
- George Sand (1804-1897)
Freedom is not something you are given,
but something you have to take.
- Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organization of mass and tension – the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.
- Barbara Hepworth (1903-1795)
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
- Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957)
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
- Mae West (1892-1980)
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie (1867-1934)
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
- Colette (1873-1954)
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
- Joan Crawford (1905-1977)
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham (1894 – 1991)
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
- Elsa Schiaparelli (1890– 1973)
You were once wild here.
Don't let them tame you.
- Isadora Duncan
(1877 – 1927)
If Venice sinks, the collection should be preserved somewhere in the vicinity of Venice.
- Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
- Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
Prejudice is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
- Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965)
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
- Bette Davis (1908 – 1989)
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
- Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
I enjoy writing when I am in the desert. There are no distractions such as telephones, theatres, operas, houses and gardens.
- Agatha Christie (1891-1976)
By humble and faithful prayer, the soul acquires, with time and perseverance, every virtue.
- Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
