I should like to erase the fixed boundaries that we self-assured humans like to draw around anything we can achieve.
- Hannah Höch (1889-1978)
In violence, we forget who we are.
- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
She would never exchange her solitude for anything.Growing up, I often moved to the rhythms of others.
Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
- Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell (1847–1922)
what are our moons?Meditation and prayer bring balance to my mind and peace to my heart.
what are our suns?
what are our oceans?
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
(1911-1956)
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
- Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963)
There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother.... A woman artist must be ... capable of making primary sacrifices.
- Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.What possibilities does your human soul hold?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
I am not ashamed of anything.
- Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
(1895-1977)
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
(1917-1977)
Where there is great love there are always miracles.I believe in great love.
- Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
- Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
- Édith Piaf (1915-1963)
Well, it was not easy...but I'd do it all over again.Would you do it all over again?
- Lillian Somoza Debayle de Sevilla-Sacasa
(20th century - timeless)
Happy Birthday Mimi
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
- Dame Margot Fonteyn
(1919-1991)
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
- Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.What are our souls occupied with?
- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Let me listen to me and not to them.
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1926)
A director is the only man besides your husband who can tell you how much of your clothes to take off.
- Betty Blythe (1893-1972)
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.How do we spend ourselves?
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself; the second is to help others.
- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now.
Live it, feel it, cling to it.
I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
-Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
You can never be too rich or too thin.
- Babe Paley (1915-1978)
I'm not interested in age.
People who tell me their age are silly.
You're as old as you feel.
- Elizabeth Arden (1884 - 1966)
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.Prayer FEELS good to me.
- Julian of Norwich (14th century)
Women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
- Louise Otto (1819-1895)
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.We all know people who speak and speak and never seem to be able stop...
- Margaret Chase Smith (1897 - 1995)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
(1821-1910)
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
- Bella Abzug (1920-1998)
The traditions of our people are handed down from father to son. The Chief is considered to be the most learned, and the leader of the tribe. The Medicine Man, however, is thought to have more inspiration. He is supposed to be in communion with spirits...What traditions have we been handed down and by whom?
- Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891)
Para qué nací bonita, mejor me hubiera quedado como las chachas de mi pueblo.
- María Félix, La Doña (1914 – 2002)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller (1880–1968)
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
- Florence Nightingale (1829–1910)
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
- May Sarton (1912-1995)
Suddenly passing Taos Mountain I felt that I was part of the Earth, so that I felt the sun on my surface and the rain. I felt the stars and the growth of the moon; under me, rivers ran.....Earth is a Mother to us all.
- Millicent Rogers (1902-1953)
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
- Claudette Colbert (1903-1996)
I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
- Rita Hayworth (1918-1987)
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
- Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
- Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901)
